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By applying the phrase
“practice makes perfect,”
upper secondary students
learned to excel in basic skills
from classes such as math, lan-
guage acquisition, and English.
Partha Yashraj, sophomore,
believes “If you’re bad at some-
thing, you have to practice hard
enough in order to achieve your goal.
If one is physically weak, they should
work out in order to get stronger than
before. If a student cannot fully under-
stand
a lesson, he or she will keep prac-
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ticing anything from that lesson.”
Partha also thought the idea of
“practice makes perfect” can be applied
to classes he is taking. “For math you can try
all these different equations and practice using
the formulas in different situations. It is the same
with language acquisition and English. You have
to practice what you learned over and over, and
with different situations.”
Jeremy Kim, freshman, also agreed that practice
does make perfect. “It has been proven to me [by
experience]. I have tried out a lot of things, and I liked
some of them, so I practiced and got better very quickly
and if I didn’t practice, I got worse.”
“Practice really does make perfect because practice
exposes you to the things that you might not learn in a
book, practice really morphs whatever you are doing into
your personality,” said Leo Chun.
Practice puts the information one learns in a book into
reality. When it comes to math, language acquisition, and
English, Leo added, “Practice applies especially [to] those three
[subjects] because the only real way to get good at something is
to practice. Sure you’re able to answer a good test on the topic
you’re given, but you must have passion and practice for it.”
1. Eugene Jang
dramatically goes through her thought
process during the latest Spanish quiz, much to the amuse-
ment of Ms. Choi. 2. Myeongjae Kim visits Martin Lee’s table to see what his English
presentation looks like. The juniors had been learning about the persuasive techniques used in
advertisements and were making presentations with their own advertisements. 3. Ryan Yi and Sam
Lee write down their new year’s resolutions on a giant poster in Korean class. Most people’s resolu-
tions were about getting a boyfriend or girlfriend, getting into a good university, or getting more sleep.
4. Jaime Suh and Mrs. Kuang, talking about life in between assignments. The Mandarin class had been
studying the formats of travel journals in preparation to write their own as part of their midterms.
5. Partha Yashraj and Tivan George write in their Spanish workbooks. Their Spanish class had been
learning and memorizing the different conjugations of Spanish verbs for present, past, and future tenses.
6. Sophia Lee and Joanne Lee peer review each other’s summative written assignment in their Korean class.
The student’s summative task involved the students exploring a topic of their choice, then putting that informa-
tion into the format of a blog, news article, or interview.
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