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It is a common belief that studying through
collaboration with fellow students can improve the efficiency of studying. However, I firmly believe that
competition between students can lead to better academic achievements because it can motivate students to study
harder than other students.
On the one hand, students can determine
effectively what they don't know through cooperative studying. For instance, students teach one another as if
they are their friends' teachers, and during this procedure, they can find out what they were missing when they
studied alone and complement their studying. For example, from my experience that operated a study group with my friends of 7, I
took the role of a teacher, and made questions to solve together. By this, we were able to suppose how teachers will make questions and discover some problems in questions, enhancing an ability to study
further contents in a single textbook.
Nevertheless, I support the idea that
students can get better grades through competition, rather than collaboration that might cause a decrease in concentration,
particularly when groups consist of close friends. Generally, students are motivated by their peers and have a
potential inclination to exceed their fellow learners while learning the same contents in same classes. A recently published
research illustrates that overwhelmingly lots of students are kindled by their competition's achievements,
especially when their grades are lower than those of others. This method might cause students' high stress levels, but
it seems evident that the driving force resulting from the competition can counterbalance the disadvantage.
To sum
up, while it would be dangerous to give students psychological pressure, it is
evident recognizing the presence of rivals and being stimulated
through competition have better effects in terms of achieving their academic goals and reaching at what they want to do, or
what they want to be. |