Efforts Do Contribute To My Exams

  “Ah girl, how many times I tell you not to play the computer? You should study or do exercises then your marks will only improve!”

  “Ah girl, shut down your computer and concentrate on your studies, or else how would you get scholarship when you’re older?”

Those are the sentences I hear last time, almost everyday (I ain’t kiddin’). I used to envy those gifted people, like how can they scores Aces in exams that easy, even though they just studied for an hour per day. It was like the world was so unfair, but efforts proved me wrong everytime.

I’ve learned that in order to score well in a test, you’ve got to put in that effort into improving yourself. Well, I hated studying a lot, like seriously a lot. Last time, mom knew I hated doing exercises and always study a few days before exams so she made a deal with me like this: If I study for 2 hours, I got to play computer for 2 and a half hours. If I didn’t touch the books she bought once for the day, don’t ever think about switching on the computer.

Sounds pretty fair, right?

Those days, smartphones weren’t invented yet (or only a few rich families have the ability to effort it). They don’t know that computers are like super technologies to us kids. Maybe I was wrong to be a gamer. To think that I have to study before playing, isn’t that a bit waste of time? Or maybe… Maybe that’s the reason that motivated me to get better results so I can prove to any other people, I am better than them.

Ever since I promised mom, I never missed a single day without reading essays and solving questions. Sometimes, when I was frustrated over questions I couldn’t answer, I was like: I should pay more attention to the teacher next time and ask her questions I don’t understand. Guess what? It works. I’d never flip the Chinese dictionary unless in school. Now, the thick and heavy book of Chinese dictionary was torn and taped over and over again like it was used for several decades. My notebooks were all jolted down with messy notes during classes, just to make sure I wouldn’t forget tips given by the teachers. I have to admit I haven’t fully finish some of the exercises she bought and sometimes, I even copy answers but it’s not like I couldn’t understand a single thing. It was, why don’t I try on something more challenging and put in more time on things I don’t understand instead of doing something I knew over and over again?

As in return, I still can play computer games, well you know, sometimes I ended up playing 3 or 4 hours straight, but mom didn’t bother to tell me to shut down. Probably she knew I already became the kid that finally touch her books just to play the computer.

Besides the computer games, my grades are definitely going higher than I taught. Mom said I wasn’t born stupid, no one does. Just that I was very lazy and procrastinate the entire time. Mom does have the ability to send me to tuition but I live far (she thinks it was expensive and only a waste of time), so mom say I had depend on my own if I wanted to survive among the smart people as I was in the first class. I got to be cool and make people admit that I am also a good student, right?

I did survive.

I did prove to them I can also do well, if I put tons of effort in it.

How about you?