There exist several steps children take to grow into adulthood. Among these steps, one of the most important ones is the college entrance exam. In my opinion, children develope their personality through preparing for the exam by the reasons below.
To begin with, I point that getting enough scores to enter the privilege college is the product of hard work. The more difficult the exams are, the more patient the children will be while studying for them. From my experience, I used to study 15 hours a day in the library when I was the final grade of highschool. This experience made me more patient, and developed my self-controlling power. Like this, hard works lead children to meet one of the requirements for adulthood; be patient.
Not only this, the process to get ready for the exam also improves children's time management skills. To be specific, Korean SAT compromises more than 7 subjects. In order to get good grades, children have to manage their time for the proper allocation to each subject. Otherwise, they would miss one or two subjects to study. For instance, my sister never made her plan by hours until she became the final grade of the highschool. However, to prepare for the entrance exam, she changed a lot; everyday she followed the daily schedule which was made by herself at the beginning of the week.
Finally, the college entrance exams build up children's strong personality because they are the greatest challenge children have ever met. Some of them may be frustrated and others may realize how sweet the fruit of the hard effort is. Through this trial and error, each child would grow into more strong person, ready for the real world which they will meet after becoming an adult.
To sum up, I firmly believe that the college entrance exam turns evey child into an adult to some extent. Not only for the higher education, but also for their personal development, the college entrance exams are beneficial to the children's education.
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