Does Grades Represent Intelligence?

Does grades represent intelligence?

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Edwing Josué García Alvarado

Mss. Elsie Huber

Grammar Class

16/12/2016

Does a grade in tests represent intelligence?

The intelligence is defined as the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations; the skilled use of reason or the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (as tests).

Starting from this concept the intelligence can be measure through different tests, for example the test of IQ (intelligent quotient) or typical standardized tests that compare your performance with other people your age who take the same test. These tests don’t measure all kinds of intelligence, however. In the academic ambit, the exams we do in our different classes. As a student, most of the tests that I being doing are written exams and there is where the doubt arises if this type of evidence is actually capable of measuring intelligence.

Unfortunately many students frustrated their aspirations even reaching affecting their self-esteem due to the formation of a negative concept of their intellectual capacity and yet that same student can have many skills and a talent upward that the average of students that stand out with high scores in standardized tests in their classes. By this reason is important to ask if our schools really appreciate in an objective way the intelligence.

Peter Tait wrote on the Telegraph in UK “Intelligence cannot be defined by exams.

We lose too many talented people by defining intelligence through exams that are wholly inadequate and constricting” And he cited Edward de Bono who said “Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.”

People believe that also the grades that we obtained in our life will determine if we succeed in life or not. But the reality is that grades cannot measure our success in the future. When we born God give us special gifts for our life, one could be the ability for sports, math, science, or business. And all those gifts we don’t learn it in school, we are born with them. In this world there have been visionary people, thinkers, businessman, athletes, politics, scientists and inventors that didn’t did good in school, they didn’t have the best grades or even didn’t finished school, and now they are considered rich people, or people that made a change in this world with their actions. And all those people did all those things without hundreds in schools, or even without a degree. As an example we can talk about Andrew Carnegie, a visionary, pioneer and innovator, better known as the father of modern philanthropy. He was among the most famous industrialist of his days; he made a fortune for his discoveries and his actions. He never studies nothing and he still become billionaire and well known by his actions, his inventions and his works. He probably didn’t study but he was good with business and he was a creative man and a thinker, and that made him successes.

Another example of it could be one of the best soccer players of today and of history, Cristiano Ronaldo. Since he was a kid he had a passion and a talent for soccer, but he didn’t have passion for studying or receiving classes, he always escape from classes to play soccer and he was not doing well on his classes. He almost leave his studies because a teacher that traumas him and that told him that he will never be a professional player and that he was a mess, but she never imagine that that kid was going to be one of the best soccer players of the world and one of the richest athletes in the world. Cristiano probably was not the best student in his class but he was good in sports and that make him succeed. And more people like them have succeeded without having hundreds in their classes or a title in a wall, just their gifts that God gave them.