Question

Typically, most merit-based aid scholarships are offered to students based on _____.

Answer 1

They are offered to students based on their GPAs; one way of measuring merit in schools. Merit-based scholarships help school children out of worse economic environments where money is not abundant to gain a opportunity to get into a good college based on their good grades. 

Answer 2

The right answer is academic achievement.

At any age, children have behaviors that adults would like to see changed. In both schools and private practice, many educators and psychologists use reward systems to help them achieve this.

Reward systems can take different forms: motivation chart, token bags, reinforcement techniques.