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This article seemed to point out a problem with perception of "the value of a letter grade" rather than a lack of motivation to do hard work.

It indicated to me that grades, rather than the outcome from learning, are dangerously overvalued in our education and employment systems.

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" One of the things we’ve seen from all our data crunching is that G.P.A.’s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless — no correlation at all except for brand-new college grads, where there’s a slight correlation. Google famously used to ask everyone for a transcript and G.P.A.’s and test scores, but we don’t anymore, unless you’re just a few years out of school. We found that they don’t predict anything. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-b...

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