Grades should be topic wise
Enough has been told about the dark side of the grades by educators. Here is a blog that gives 3 reasons grades are bad and restrict students from innovating or becoming an independent thinker. https://www.thnk.org/blog/3-reasons-grades-bad-education/ It has been criticized to encourage "teaching to test" style of teaching, and grades become the end goal rather than learning. No matter how much it is criticized, the status quo of grades has hardly changed. It became a century, but students are still judged only through their grades. Innovation on improving grading procedures has continued in many isolated parts of the world, but it's never done in scale throughout most countries. In India, reason can be the hierarchical rigid political, and bureaucratic system, that hardly gives any choice and training to the schools to innovate. They want everything to be filtered by grades, whether through board grades or entrance scores. Grades have become a source of filt