pens, a student may make a last ditch effort to turn it around, and he may begin to over study. When a student starts to over study, he pushes himself so much that he may go over the edge, and he even may start to blank on test. Blanking on a test may hurt the students grades even more then they already were. Now, since the grades are even worse, the parents could become disappointed in their child. He may think everyone is against him. This may turn him to the thought of suicide to escape all of his worries. In conclusion, many students suffer mentally when competing for a grade. Therefore, competition for grades has an unhealthy influence on students. Students lose their social lives while competing for grades. They also suffer physically. The greatest problem of all when a student competes for grades is they undergo great mental hardship....