Writing Feedback / Sapodila, was the name given to me when I was born; Essay on myself [3]

Sapodila, was the name given to me when I was born. Till today, this name has brought me lots of luck. Credits to my parents for giving me such a wonderful name. I have no problem in school as it was easy to be pronounced and whenever I needed to fill up any form, the space had been always adequate.

When I was small, my grandmother was the one who brought me up. Both of my parents were working, so I spent most of my time with my lovely grandmother. At that time, I was her youngest granddaughter and this enabled me to receive extra care from her. Taking a job like a mum, she taught me many things, including doing house chores at a very young age. Although she could not help me in my studies, she was always there, giving endless support. She told me stories about my mum and her siblings. They are all grated with good jobs such as teacher, engineer, police officer, and army. I was amazed by the way she could raise up eight kids even with a little pay. She kept on encouraging me to study hard to achieve my ambition.

In my primary school, I always obtained excellent grades. Being at the top, I always work hard in order to maintain or even to enhance my performance. After Year 4, my family shifted to Sepang from Klang Valley. I was in a new area and I felt a little bit of nervous on my very first day. Thank god, my teachers and friends were very nice to me. They helped me to adapt to the new environment. In Year 6, I scored 5A's in my UPSR. At that point of my life, my mind set was studying in a boarding school after primary school is the best choice. So, I applied to MRSM and also SBP. Many of my relatives were against my decision; they said I was too young. But, I did not agree with them. There are many my-aged students who were studying in boarding school. So, why can't I? I was firm with my decision. Every day, I checked the MARA webpage. The day arrived and I got accepted to MJSC Kuala Kubu Bharu. My parents did not have the heart to stop me.

Life in MJSC was not as easy as in primary school. There were more subjects, more competition among peers, and the syllabus was tougher. Being a positive girl, I muddled through all the problems and obtained rank 23 out of 150. I was in the top 15% but it did not satisfy me. Each time I fall, I take it as a golden opportunity to develop myself to be better. I will work harder by trying to improve my weaknesses and maximise my strength. My effort was paid off as I got first in my whole batch with a pointer of 3.89 and I was awarded as the best student. I continued my success for the next two years; Form 2 and Form 3. At end of Form 3, I passed PMR with flying colours.

Moving on, I got an offer to PERMATApintar to pursue my studies. To be honest, it was a hard decision since MJSC was also a good school. I was reluctant to leave my friends and teachers in MJSC but offer to PERMATApintar is like once in a life time. I had to make a decision and I told myself that in order to achieve something in life we need to sacrifice. My decision was not wrong. When I came here, I started to prepare myself for university life as most of the classes are conducted that way whereby the students need to seek for information themselves rather than relying on teachers. In fact, PERMATApintar is the reason why I could pursue my studies in university in the United States at the age of 17.

Writing Feedback / In my opinion, daily homework is necessary; Reasons & Examples [6]

Many teachers assign homework to students every day. Do you think that daily homework is necessary for students? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.

It is human being's nature to do homework. Despite their age, they still do their homework. Not only students, even an actor or a singer need to do homework. In school, almost all teachers give their students homework; it could be on daily basis or a day after another. Some students enjoy doing it while the others do not. So, the question here is, is daily homework necessary for students? Before I proceed, let us look at the meaning of daily homework. Daily homework means task or assignment given every day to students without failure.

In my opinion, daily homework is necessary. I support this because homework could be a platform for students to learn to be responsible. This is because homework given is to be done and submitted within a specific deadline or else they would be suffering from punishments from the teachers. So, students will be able to know the need of being responsible in order to finish up their homework. Plus, students will also learn to prioritize their work. In a day, there might be a few assignments with different deadlines. In this case, students can plan when they would like finish each assignment according to the deadlines. Therefore, it is proved that daily homework could be one of the way for students to be responsible and learn to prioritize they tasks.

Just by listening to lectures in class, one could not grasp everything. In another case, one might not understand when the teacher is teaching. A research conducted says that by listening our mind could grasp only about 20 percent of it. Whereas, when one does something practically, one could understand about 80 percent. This is where homework plays its role. Homework will help promote better understanding among students. In some other cases, students might understand what was taught in class, but most probably by the end of the day they would forget it. Therefore, homework could help them to refresh back what was taught. So, during exams, they need only a little bit of revision. By this way, there would be no more sleepless night and as a result, students could pass their exams with flying colours.

In fact, homework can act as an exercise or practice. For instance, let us take a look at the Mathematics subject. In class, teachers only teach us on the concepts involved in solving mathematical problems. Besides knowing the concepts, students should know the formulas. However, by knowing the concepts and formula alone would not help much. Students should be able to use them or in other words apply them when solving problems. They might learn in school, but how many problems use the same way of solving? Hence, practice is needed to make sure students really understand and know how to solve various questions. Plus, for one to be skillful, he or she needs lots of practice. As the saying goes, practice makes perfect. So, rather than seeing homework as assignment needed to be submitted, why not see it as a free practice?

Although homework gives a lot of benefits to students, there is one thing that we need to consider. At times, when all teachers of all subjects give students homework, there comes a worry. This is so as homework consumes time. In order to finish up all the homework in time, students should spend time doing it. If the student is going to spend time completing his or her assignment, then when is the student going to study, do some revision or prepare for the next day? Risk of facing health problem will also increase among students since they have no time to exercise or go for a jog. The long term consequence is youth produced will be inactive and unhealthy. Is this what our country's mission? Obviously no. Therefore, daily homework could also be a burden to students at times.

In short, daily homework is necessary for students although there may be a few disadvantages of it. Looking at the bright side, I believe it will be beneficial to students although they might not realize it. If students try to organize their time properly, then daily homework would not be a problem to them. In fact, teachers should also play a part by limiting the assignment. They should consider themselves being a student with homework not only from them but from other teachers as well. All in all, something could always be useful to someone who knows who to make use of it.