EduRegard:



Quiz time : Who was the best graduating student in your school last year? What about the year before? No body knows. No body cares. It seems like the glory that comes with graduating with a first class don't out last the convocation day. I still have a picture on my phone of a best graduating student of a state university being rewarded with a mug by the governor of the very state. A mug!!!

If a first class is really worth it, trust me Ayo Dada will be a household name. Alas, he is not. The young man created a buzz when he graduated from the university of lagos with a 5.0 CGPA. He got pats on the back from one or two brands and the Lagos state house of representatives and that was it. He surfaced later claiming all those that promised financial assistance did not live up to their promise. Why should they?

See, a first class degree do not reflect intellectual prowess. Its all a game of memory. Who can remember what in the exam hall. It doesn't reflect intelligence or creativity. Little wonderful 95% of the top people in the across various walks of life are not first class graduates.
Every student I know is primarily obsessed with GPA. I don't subscribe to that! Every student should be concerned with creating stuff. We should have students in mechanical engineering building kerosene powered cars. Dramatic arts students should be shooting scenes in Kenya. Pharmacy students should brainstorm cures for cancer.

Rather, we all want to read what our lecturers spoon feed us and vomit it back on our exam answer scripts. And the result? My friends will say la cram la pour. We end up cramming but not understanding. They use all sort of codes and formulas, all in a bid to score over 70 in the course but their intelligence quotient is something like 17.

This should stop! Like someone said, most students chase first class degree so as to secure a job in companies started by third class graduates and dropouts. I don't need a first class degree. A first class personality will do.

No First Class For Me, Thanks.

SOURCE : http://eduregard.com/no-first-class-thanks-michael-roman/

adioolayi:
Agony of a defeated Soul.....Yes, you maybe better in other aspect of life...but for that particular task of going to school, being at a dept., going through same rigours of academics with your colleagues and someone or some people had firstclass while you are struggling for thirdclass or Pass...YOUR ARE SIMPLY A FAILURE!

Why should you opt for less when the best is firstclass what you will do with it or become in life is another thing entirely...this kind of mentality is for the failed. ....and deep down the op would have struggled for excellence but failed!

Slimberry1:
Having a first class does not stop you from been the best in other aspects of life,in fact it should be an added advantage for you in other things you are engaged in, its outrightly not an excuse I would take from an "unsuccessful" first class graduate I love first class graduates, I envy them but I detest first class graduates who lack critical thinking, problem solving intelligence.