The Pressure

Final Exams are a very big part of a students overall semester grade. This causes many students to have allot of stress and may feel a great deal of pressure to do well during this last week of the semester. As a junior at New Trier High School, I have taken a total of four semesters worth of Final Exams. And what I have noticed is that I have rarely had a final that changed my grade in a dramatic way. More often than not the grade I receive on my final Exam is roughly the same as my overall grade in the class. I think that doing al of your homework during the school year and studying for all of the tests and quizzes throughout the year is the best way to prepare for a final exam. Sure if a student studies hard during the week before finals it will improve his or her score, but no matter how hard and how long a student studies for i that week it will never make up for 4 months of slacking off. Students are feeling the pressure to do well in finals and I think that if you have been doing your best throughout the semester then you should have nothing to worry about.