Strengths- Way More Than Grades…….

In this competitive scenario, the main concern of average parents is to ensure that their child does well in school. The education system replaced the student’s intelligence and strengths with the name of grades in which A means excellent and F means failure. While growing up, the society had taught us that in order to get a good job, we needed to obtain good grades. According to them, the number of A grades we score will decide our intelligence. School is competitive and stressful and not everyone gets A grades and then the burden of not achieving it bring us down. It reduces the morale and confidence of a student.

In the hustle- bustle of getting good grades, people forgot the difference between grades and intelligence. Grades measure our intelligence in school while intelligence measures our performance in life. The test of life is way more difficult than the test of school material. But unfortunately, people have started relating both the terms, they think that if they don’t get good grades their life will become useless and meaningless but its actually not true because life is what we make through our hard work, intelligence and skills but not only which we discover through grades. Agreeing with the fact, that yes grades do matter for better future but that doesn’t mean they will itself become our future.If you are facing failures, that means you are trying and if you keep trying without giving up you will definitely achieve success.

Everyone has something unique in them which differentiate them from others. Grades are not the strengths of a person. We can’t judge one’s intelligence or skills on the basis of their grades. Everyone has different field of interests, some are good at academics whereas some are in extra- curricular activities. There is no point of losing self confidence if we are lacking grades. Grades can’t show every amazing quality we have.

Do grades define an individual's strength?

If we analyze the situation, most of the people agree with the statement that yes grades do! But if we analyze another aspect grade can’t show every amazing quality we have, the strengths of person. Everyone has strengths. Strengths are the biggest pillar of life which make an individual strong. Knowing and working with strengths will help us to be successful and stay motivated.Strengths not only involves skills or innovation but also the personal characteristics features like leadership quality, decision making, planning, organizing etc.

For example:if you have leadership quality, you will able to handle your work in more appropriate and organized way and can get more job opportunities.

So, in conclusion of this topic I would like to say that grades don’t define us. Those numbers on report cards aren’t the labels on our forehead. We are much more. But we have to start analyzing our strengths and shall not let these so-called grades decide our future.