The Nigerian polytechnic, which keeps gasping for remedial interpolation, propounds the need for
progressive assessment with the view to curtailing every inadequacy inhibiting its efficacy, especially in this postpandemic era where global economies are recuperating from the tremor of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, this study
pragmatically discovered a delinquency through which the polytechnic has been draining and shortchanging itself.
Findings from this study established that, judging from the existing grading scheme used in Nigerian polytechnics (the 4-
point-grading structure), there is a need for its urgent review, especially the Lower Credit and Pass classifications at
both ND and HND levels, as the students with Pass are discriminated against speciously on the contextual assumption of
a 5-point grading system instead of the unified 4-point system. In close comparison with the previously adopted 4-point
grading structure for degree classification in Nigerian universities, before reverting to 5 points in 2018, this study
maintained that the students indexed as pass in the Nigerian polytechnics’ 4-point grading system are above-average
students that deserve to be reabsorbed into the HND program after Industrial Training without any chauvinism. This
study recommended, among others, the need for immediate review of the polytechnic’s existing Standardized Unified
Classification of Grades by NBTE and other stakeholders by imbibing the previously used 4-point grading scheme
deployed by the university sub-sector or adopting 5.0 to be on the safe side, in order to inhibit further haplessness of the
ill-treated Pass students, through which the sub-sector has been shortchanging itself