“Daveson Beron shot himself because he failed to graduate, and Don Benedict Pamintuan killed himself just because he got bad grades” (Ozaeta). This incident gives just a glimpse of how many problems students have to face from their first day of school until their graduation. In the United States, “one in 10 college students have made a suicide plan, and there are more than 1,000 suicides on college campuses per year” (Suicide Statistics). Being bullied by classmates, issues in time management, tuition fees, bad grades, homesickness, and relationships are among the various reason’s students commit suicide, among which bad qualities are the dominant ones. Students are too depressed and worried regarding their grades, and they find suicide an easy way out of this. To cope with this type of social issue, the trainees should be taught that rates are not the essential thing in the world. But this cannot be done until the traditional way of grading via letter grades is replaced by some other evaluation tool because it just assigns an alphanumeric character to the student, measuring how much he understands about a given subject and not the ability of how much he can learn and engage with the content. Although the traditional letter grade evaluation system provides an incentive for students to study, it should be replaced by a pass-fail evaluation system because it enhances learning, gives students an incentive to take more academic risks, and increases group cohesiveness.
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