Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: grades encourage students to learn. TASK: Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: grades encourage students to learn. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion. Some people think that grades can encourage students to learn while others disagree with that statement. I believe that it is true that good grades promote students to study harder. In this essay I am going to explain my opinion by giving some reasons and examples. Firstly, good grades always are the reason because of which students continue to learn. For example, as for me as school girl and now as a student it is a pleasure to get best grades in all subjects. From this I can feel that I do everything right and have to proceed exactly in this way. Secondly, good grades not only a feature of good studying and a stimulus to do more and more but also in my opinion they are some sort of guarantee of a good job and the great future. So I can be sure that the fact that I study well and get best grades means that I can do with my life anything even something that it seems earlier impossible. For instance, I get my present job because of my hard work at the veterinary academy and my self-confidence. Since my teachers always give me a lot of pieces of advice, support me and cheer me up. To draw the conclusion, I want to say that I strongly believe that grades have great influence on studying and confidence of students. Moreover, I believe that receiving good grades not only allows a student to try harder with learning but also it helps him or her to become a better person and a good professional.