Looking back at this semester for me, there is quite a strong negative correlation between the amount of effort and commitment put into the classes, and the final grades received from the classes. It's a clear demonstration that GPA cannot capture the amount of
take-away for the future, which just happens to be the most crucial element of education.
It's an unfortunate truth that the grades we
get are predominantly based on how we perform on the one or two particular exams,
relatively to the others in the class. Fine, let that be because there usually is no
better way to go about it. But of course in the long run, it's the
personally absorbed knowledge and future take-away that actually matter. Cramming
all the knowledge the night before, acing the exam, and subsequently forgetting
everything afterwards have little value in the future. Knowing actually
how to use and apply the learned knowledge in the subject matter will go much further, whether
or not we remember how to solve that one particular problem on that
particular day on that particular exam.
