You there, Yes, I’m talking to YOU. If i asked you, may I know what’s your opinion on the purpose of studying is? There may be more than hundreds and thousand of reasons. However, the most important one is to become a useful person.

Ah, the Malay and English language. It’s absolutely true that the importance of these languages in our now society cannot be denied. Not to mention that the mathematics subject is important too. However, the students should not study just because for exams only.

But unfortunately, our world today revolves around exams. Exams oriented education systems nowadays are practically replacing the process of studying. As they think it’s compulsory and important to be in a class of brilliants just to enter university and also getting into good high schools equals to a compulsory of having fantastic school results. This reason could not be denied as this is practically the only reasons why the students are studying for. Well, ‘THIS’ way of studying just had to change.

This should not be just the only reason for students to study. I felt that it’s everyone’s mission the change the society. To accomplish this mission, students should study even harder so that they have to potential to change this negative remark.

All of this negative remarks it’s just an excuse to criticize our public school education system. We should think twice before we do any action to get our target. This, small little steps like this in every one of us can contribute to the society to become better.

If you try to think about it, people are quite easy to be influenced to be lazy. Students are practically just chasing over exam than really studying. I dislike this way of education although I admit that this tactic worked quite well on students just to make them study. But let’s try to think, if there’s no more existence of examinations anymore in schools, the students brains will be automatically switch off just like that! If there’s no more existence of tuitions, it might felt great at that moment. But later on, you might regret tremendously. So, in the end, study for examinations it’s not a bad idea after all.

We should change the view of the exam oriented education system. Don’t study because of exams, but study for the sake of gaining more knowledge. Exams it’s just a tactic used on students to study.

In the sports world, it’s always been said that the new sport players are terrified of their new strict coaches. That’s why they always seem to appear as very hardworking to their coaches on their first seasonal game. However, later on when the sport players succeed in the sports world, they will be extremely grateful to their coaches. This is practically the same reason it we put the examinations as a challenging target. By that, we can obviously nurture more potential in students as they grow up on the time being.

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Impression:

As we all know, the 21st century kids of nowadays are very materialistic and it’s the same goes for adults too. Too much of chasing materialistic stuffs had blinded them knowing what their child needs. Little by little, the child might ask, ‘Why do we have to learn?’, ‘Why do we have to study?’ With innocent questions like that, they don’t even know or understand the existence of examinations today. Some of the students might get fantastic strings of As for their examination results, but at the back of all those As, they might not even feel happy a bit and as well might even complain about this and that. In some cases, parents might feel embarrass when their little ones achieve poor results. And the scenario gets even worst when their parents take their children results as a competition to other students. For some heavy tempered parents, they might even hit their children too. Its time to rewind back, Is their children’s achievements equals to their parent’s pride? Or is it supposes to be about the children getting a bright future next time?

It’s a very a wrong thinking for the children’s to think that exams and studying are just for their parents request and pride. Instead of really studying, the children’s will feel scared and terrified.

When the children’s are having hard time or tensions while studying or facing examinations, the right thing to do is to give supportive encouragement to them rather than just harshly demand marks that fulfill your desire rather than the child’s. I believe that if the parents still continue this kind of harsh teaching ways, no matter how many strings of As the child get for his examination, he’ll never really like studying. The children studies because they’re curious to know more about stuffs that they never knew. So as an adult, we should portray as a compass for them. Let them explore first. If they get lost, we’ll show them back to the right path. Rather than leading the way for them and never letting them explore what they really want.

The children’s curiosity for studying will start to fade if they just study because of examinations. So in the end when we wanted to explain more to them, they would not want to listen to us anymore. Therefore, we should tell them that this is their mission to face exam in a new challenging and brave attitude.

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