Academic Pressures

The pressure on university students to get good grades.

Academic standards have increased drastically through out these past few years. Many individuals debate whether student overladed is apositive or negative phenomenon. There are many causes to this change some social, others family oriented, but mostly it is due to the schools themselves and the image they attempt to portray. Everyaction has consequences or results and the results due to this change may at first sight be viewed as positive; but looking closer it also has many negative effects on the students. The studentspressure socially, by parents and their universities result in a decrease in their passions, a change in their integrity, and ruptures in their relationships.  
Social life plays a minimum but stillaffective role with this dilema. The competition within classmates at universities and other students around the world is a major factor in this problem of academic pressure. Most students physiologicalwant to achieve a title for getting good grades and the pride of being better than the others around them. Some parents also take part in this pressure of having to get good grades. Most parents relievethat pressuring their sons into doing well in school is a good thing but in most cases it turns out to have a polar effect. Parents are constantly focusing on the letter or number grade their sonsand daughters are receiving; rather than the valuable learning they are able to put to practice. These students therefore feel the need to excel in school. In this case the pressure eventually becomesoverbearing due to the students attempts to balancing school, work and other extracurricular activities (Palmer, 2005). The universities themselves put the most pressure on the importance of achievinggood grades. The SAT scores and the grades they require for getting accepted play the first major sign of pressure. Then once in the university the challenges they place on the students within...