Subj : Re: Academic grades should be USELESS
To   : comp.programming
From : gds
Date : Wed Jul 27 2005 07:13 am

gswork@mailcity.com wrote:
>James wrote:
>> I have a just an average academic
>> grades and because of this I was not able to sit in the interviews of
>> most of the companies, which visited my university, inspite of the fact
>> that my technical know-how is the among the best in the
>> university.
>So how come you were unable to translate this skill into high grades -
>what caused you to fall short of something that should have been taken
>in stride by you - and it's that question which no doubt concerns
>'these' companies.

Here is an example.  Some people I know had trouble in school because
they weren't good test takers.  They did well on the take-home
assignments/homework (and didn't cheat), but not as well on the tests,
which were more heavily weighted, and as a result did poorer than
others.

--gregbo
gds at best dot com

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