for our students, marks are above everything. teachers will judge us from our marks. with marks we can be enrolled into junior middle schools. with marks, we can be enrolled into senior middle schools. with marks we can be enrolled into college. with marks we can be enrolled into postgraduate and doctor studies. still with marks we can be graded and be allowed to go abroad for further studies. our parents will be strict with us with the marks. our society judges us from marks. however, sometimes we students compare one another with marks directly. we are completely controlled by marks. we like them and we feel sorry for them. but what attitude towards our marks should we take?
truly, marks functions cannot be underestimated. in terms of test in our study, marks are fair and real. that is the reason why we say, "everyone is equal before marks."
however, i didnt think marks are the sole standard to judge the success or failure of studtens in exams. sometimes, marks more than ten or less than one or two in our exams comparing with others means not everything. the success or failure in exams will be influenced by experience on the spot and the examinees health etc. once in a while one cannot fail in exams. "success or failure is common for military." i think everyone is familiar with the famous saying. dont you think such will be the case with our study? in exams, one cannot be "never-defeated general". even though one will be very good in everyday study, he cannot succeed in every exam sometimes. we can get proof from the fact that the very best one we call "number one scholar" in the entrance exams for college and ordinary middle school and specialized secondary school over the years is not eminent above all others nor top student in every study.
as a matter of fact, "high marks" and "ability" are not unified. some time ago, a new phrase "high marks but poor competence" came into being. once i happened to meet such a teacher as this. it is said that the teacher just graduated from a far-famed key university. but his teaching result is much less than that of the one who just graduated from a not-well-renowned college. when lecturing, the teacher only repeated what the textbook says, which was very dull, so the students interest in learning was not aroused. his teaching was short of unity of teaching and learning. at present there is a fact that we know a few brilliant and top colleges graduates are not qualified for their posts. the reason for it may be lack of the ability to combine knowledge learnt from books with pragmatics in their work. students of this kind will be successful in every exam but they wont be able to use freely their knowledge in their posts. dont you think it waste training such persons for the country?
from the above, i can say marks are not absolutely authoritative for some. if we neglect training and developing the students ability and competence and if we only seek for the high marks, we will be absolutely wrong. we should take an objective attitude towards the marks. neither should we neglect them nor should we overvalue them like a god.
分數，對于我們學生來說，是至關重要的了。老師要用分數來衡量我們──上國中要分數;上高中要分數;上大學要分數;考研究生、博士要分數;出國、評職稱還是要分數。家長用分數來要求我們，社會用分數來衡量我們，而我們自己也常常用分數在相互直接做著攀比。我們完全為分數所左右了，我們為它歡喜，我們為它喪氣。那麽，我們應該怎樣對待分數呢?
的確，分數有它不可低估的作用。從檢驗學習的角度上來說，它具有一定的公平性和真實性，"分數面前人人平等"講的就是這個道理。
然而，分數並不是估量一個學生得失成敗的惟一標準。考試成績偶爾低了一兩分乃至十來分，並不一定說明什麽問題。考試的成敗有時也會受到諸如臨場經驗、健康狀況等方面的影響。"勝敗乃兵家常事"這句話大概不會有人不知道，而我們在學習上又何嘗不如此?在考慮上很少有"常勝之師"，即使平時成績再好的同學，也難免會有偶爾的失誤。歷屆中考、聯考"狀元"並非就是平時出類拔萃的優等生的事實，便是明證。
事實上，"高分"與"能力"往往是不統一的。前段時間，社會上出現了一個新詞"高分低能"。筆者就曾經碰見這樣一位教師，據說他畢業于某赫赫有名的重點大學，但從教學效果上講，卻遠遠遜色于一些並非著名高等院校畢業的老師。其授課隻是照本宣科而已，枯燥乏味，根本不能引起聽課同學的學習興趣，缺乏一種教與學之間的協調功能。目前不少大專院校的高材生，畢業後不能勝任他們的工作，原因就在于缺少將書本中的知識運用到實際工作中去的能力。這種人，盡管在學校中每每能考出高分，可無法在工作崗位上靈活自如地運用自己所學到的知識。國家培養出這樣的"人才"，不也是一種浪費嗎?
由此可見，分數並不如有些人想像的那麽絕對和權威，忽視了對各方面才能的培養，隻一味追求高分，是不行的。因此，我們應該客觀地去看待分數，既不應輕視它，也沒有必要把它看得過于神聖。