Name: PRESTON LIEW RU PING

Student ID: 0313822

Module: ENGLISH, ENGL0105

Session: MAY, 2013

In some countries young people have little leisure time and are

under a lot of pressure to work hard in their studies

Too much work

-Have too much tuition

-Too much homework

-Lack of teacher’s

attention

-Need to improve

Financial problems

-Hard to get scholarship

-Hard to maintain

scholarship

Too much competition

-Most students are

academically strong

-Huge gap between uni

and sec school level

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Anxiety

-Mental disorder

-Nervous behaviors

We, the humans are very delicate yet complex species. We are delicate because we can get

emotional; we are complex because we can handle a lot of pressure (different people have different

limits) before we lose our mind and get mentally retarded. As we grow older, we tend to get more

tensed whenever we’re under pressure. We get more logical and more aware of issues growing up.

That is why we’ll get more responsibilities, more work, and more issues. In some countries young

people have little leisure time and are under a lot of pressure to work hard in their studies. The main

causes of this issue is too much work being handled over by teachers, financial problems, and

everyone will compete with each other to some extent.

As a university student myself, I realized that most of my spare time is used to deal with my

assignments. Most secondary school students today are not only busy with school’s academic

schedule, they’re also busy with extra tuition. The reason being most of the time during lessons, there

will be a lot of distractions such as chatting noises from the talkative students. This kind of distraction

is hard to avoid as it’s hard for one person to control a crowd. Another reason would be the teacher is

not paying attention to the poor graded students. That is why most students need extra tuition not

only because they can afford the extra payment, it’s because they want to improve their grades, and

they have the will the go further. They’ll be busy with school work and they’ll be busy with homework

from their extra tuition.

Most universities today provide scholarships for high achievers. It’s not easy to be a high

achiever because a lot of time is needed to be spent on understanding and memorizing a lot of

different subjects all together at the same time. High achievers with financial problems will need to

rely on that amount of money so that they won’t burden their parents with paying the expensive

university tuition fees. Not only high achievers with financial problems need to maintain their

scholarship status, rich or well-to-do family ones will want to keep their scholarship status if they still

have some humanity left in them. Gaining and maintaining a scholar’s status is a very difficult job. But

it will be worth it, since nowadays we upload our work to our online portfolio and it will be shown

publicly to the world.

As we get old and educated enough to enter a university, we will realize that life will start to get

hard because of the level of competitiveness between each student. There will be students with

diverse skills that will take them very far and there will be students with just enough amount of skills

or knowledge to last them for their university period. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing, but it’s just that

they’ll have to get through more hardships and spend more time. There’s a huge gap between

university level and secondary school level. Students will have to choose the course suitable for them

and they will need to adapt to the level of education quickly in order to not get left out. Within a few

months, there will be huge changes to each individual. They’ll be able to withstand pressure more, be

more hardworking, and more observant.

All in all, the reason that young people have little leisure time and are under a lot of pressure to

work hard in their studies is because of too much work given from teachers, financial problems and

the competitiveness among students. Too much pressure may lead to severe anxiety, an unpleasant

state of inner turmoil, and it’s also a type of mental disorder. An individual with anxiety will have

nervous behaviors such as pacing back and forth, an increase in stress-level, getting emotional

easily, muscle weakness, etc. Young people should balance their social life with work, as the saying

goes “all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”. To feel better, we should have hobbies and

exercise more. Doing something that makes you happy and sweating intensely do make a person feel

more relieved. We should always remember: “a healthy body is a healthy mind”.

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