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Why do children's grades generally drop a lot after high school?

High school teachers can answer this question. Many children do have this problem. Not only do students feel at a loss in the face of this kind of problem, but parents are even more anxious when they see that their children have more than 90 subjects in junior high school, and sometimes they can get full marks. Once you get to high school, you can only get 70 or 80.

So this year, when I welcome a new class of senior one students, I said to them: Entering senior one means a brand-new beginning, forget your previous grades and don't study with previous methods and ideas, otherwise you will probably be very depressed, because you did badly in one course in primary school and junior high school, but in senior high school, as long as you can get 70 or 80 points in each course, it will be good.

In fact, when I was in high school, I could get 80 points in every course. I was really a good student.

Many people who don't know about high school will hear that it's a good achievement to get a 78 in every course in high school?

Yes, the total score of the college entrance examination is 80 points, which means 600 points. It allows you to attend 985 universities in most parts of the country and famous schools in some areas with relatively backward education.

In most parts of the country, the admission rate is around 5%, and the admission rate of 985 is even lower. In other words, if you get 80% in every subject in high school, you belong to 23% of the students, and you can be called a very excellent student, because the knowledge difficulty in high school is greatly increased, which is not at the same level as that in junior high school.

However, many parents do not understand this. When they see that a child who got almost full marks in junior high school can only get 70 or 80 points in senior high school, they think that his child has regressed. In fact, as long as his ranking in the region remains unchanged, because no matter which province, the college entrance examination depends on ranking.

Of course, apart from this background, there are indeed some students who can't keep up when they enter high school. This situation requires parents to carefully analyze whether it is because of incorrect learning attitude or learning methods. As far as the former is concerned, many students have serious rebellious behavior after entering high school, that is, they are unwilling to be good students in the eyes of teachers and parents, because they feel that this is not cool at all and their grades naturally decline. There are still some students who memorize in high school. This learning method is ok in primary school and junior high school, but it is obviously not enough for knowledge points in senior high school, because the requirements of senior high school for students' thinking and reasoning ability have been greatly improved.

Hello, parents, I am a doctoral student in Tsinghua, and I have been a tutor for high school students for 6 years.

First of all, I can definitely answer the parents: children's grades have dropped after they entered high school. This situation is not a case. Many children have faced such problems, and parents need not worry too much at all.

According to the thousands of students I have taught, I found that nearly one-third of the children's junior high school grades are still above average. After entering high school, his grades stagnated or even declined. For students with this situation, I compiled a "Notes on Sprint Learning of College Entrance Examination for Secondary School Students". If parents or children need it, they can get it for free by private letter: Notes.

The reasons are as follows:

First, the pace of high school learning is very fast, and many students can't adapt to it for a while. They don't know how to face the numerous courses in high school. In addition, the difficulty has increased, and many students have limited understanding ability, which leads to a slow improvement in their grades.

Second, there are essential differences between junior high school and senior high school courses. You will find that a lot of knowledge in junior high school can be mastered by rote learning, but the curriculum in senior high school needs you to deepen your understanding and memory to a great extent, and more is an examination of your thinking and ability. If this cannot be done, it will be difficult for children to improve their studies.

Third, I didn't find a suitable learning method. Many students are just studying hard, but they don't know how to find suitable learning methods and skills. If there is no good learning method, it is a waste to spend more time, and there is no benefit except wasting your own energy.

Therefore, in order to change the status quo, students need to constantly strengthen their understanding and thinking ability, and find a suitable learning method from their own actual situation.

Tell a true story: I taught a student, because he didn't lay a good foundation at the beginning and got poor grades in chemistry, so he went to Class One of Senior High School later and had a hard time learning. I advised him to start from scratch and start from the basics. Your progress can be slower than others, but you should fully grasp every knowledge point you have learned.

Learning is not afraid of slowness, and it is afraid that if you don't master it, you will get things done hastily, because you will hurt yourself in the end.

Finally, with my help and his efforts, his chemistry scores improved slowly.

If you want to receive high school learning methods or materials, you can write privately: methods, I will give them to you for free.

Hello, as Mr. college entrance examination students, let me answer your question.

There is only one year's gap between senior one students and junior three students, and there is not much difference in brain power, so the intelligence problem has been ruled out. So I summarized the following aspects.

First of all, the amount of knowledge has increased a lot. Isn't it strange that the knowledge of the whole junior high school is not as rich as that of the first semester of senior one? A topic in junior high school only involves 1~3 knowledge points, and there are few topics with more than 3 knowledge points. Therefore, memorizing more and writing more is helpful to improve the score, which is often beneficial to girls, and it needs to be delicate and careful, which is conducive to the examination of questions. In high school, all of a sudden, the knowledge points involved in each topic have been greatly improved, and the requirements for the understanding of knowledge points and the ability to examine questions have also improved a lot.

Secondly, due to the improvement of knowledge and the diversity of knowledge combination, the learning methods of high school are doomed to be different from those of junior high school. In junior high school, rote memorization is the main thing, and in senior high school, especially from the second year of senior high school, understanding and application are the main things. Knowledge points are required to be proficient in blurting out, applying understanding and combining the two.

Moreover, high schools, especially key high schools, have gathered regional elites and strict school requirements. For those children who don't adapt to the new environment quickly, once they can't keep up at first, it's easy to give up and their efforts will be in vain. Some students are also influenced by adolescent physiological factors, such as playing mobile phones, falling in love, family disharmony, school bullying and other bad factors, which easily lead to weariness of learning and decline in grades.

In addition, it is of no value for students in Grade One and Grade Two to use scores to predict their college entrance examination results. Senior one and senior two are synchronous exercises, unlike senior three who practice a lot of knowledge, get low marks and answer questions slowly. Therefore, the study of senior one and senior two should be based on ranking and refer to a dividing line of the school over the years.

Therefore, there are some * * * laws that are common throughout high school life. For every student, the situation is similar, which may be of reference value, simply from the perspective of mathematics, physics and chemistry.

1. In chemistry, the amount of substances introduced in the first semester of senior one is enough to make many students feel afraid of chemistry. The question about the quantity of matter is very vivid. If students study step by step, the amount of calculation will be particularly large. If they don't understand from multiple angles, their ability to use knowledge will not be improved. Generally speaking, recitation is the main method in senior one chemistry. Chemistry in senior two focuses on understanding, and the difficulty of college entrance examination is basically in senior two.

I have been doing special training for the college entrance examination for so many years, and it is difficult to get high marks in senior three. As long as you study hard, it is not difficult to get a score of 40 to 50. If you want to exceed 60, especially 70, it is very difficult.

2. In physics, it is not difficult to be a senior one. In the last semester of the second year of high school, the difficulty will suddenly increase and many students will begin to fail. By the third year of senior high school, more than half of science students will fail in comprehensive science. A detailed analysis can be found in "Is high school physics really difficult? , describes in detail the matters needing attention in senior high school physics.

3. In mathematics, if you really want to learn mathematics well, I suggest: re-focus on the functions of the second semester of the second grade, learn the functions of the first grade well, and then carefully read the mathematics textbooks of the senior high school for 20 times, so that I don't believe that I can understand the functions of the senior high school even if I don't understand Chinese, and my math scores in the senior high school have also increased. After a detailed analysis, I will write another article, "Is high school mathematics really difficult?" How to learn mathematics in detail?

Finally, I want to give some suggestions on my study.

First, we must attach importance to the understanding of textbook knowledge, return to textbooks, don't brush questions blindly when teachers guide students to be superstitious, but gradually give up understanding of concepts. Reciting all subjects in high school is also very important, including science. Without enough knowledge, you can't think from multiple angles. In the process of examining questions, you can't find a faster way to solve them. So it will be slower to write questions and do homework.

In the interview of special training, I found that students below 450 in senior three asked concepts and basically asked three questions. Students with 470 to 500 points can type less than 30% of the concepts. I also found that most students with a certain foundation, such as those with a score of 450~480, can quickly raise their scores to over 600 by learning to understand and apply concepts in special training. These students can reach this score in the conventional problem-solving mode, which shows that many of them have great potential.

Second, take less notes. I don't advise high school students to take too many notes. That's the learning mode of junior high school. Junior high school depends on diligence, senior high school depends on brains, and brain training is the most important. Be sure to pay attention to understanding and application. So usually in high school, when I meet students who often take notes, my first task is to get rid of their bad habit of taking notes and record all my understanding of knowledge in a notebook. Is a lazy behavior. We must pay attention to psychological training and use our brains to know the potential of our brains.

Third, control the influence of external factors such as mobile phones. In addition, as parents, reducing anxiety and learning are children's business, and anxiety is of no help.

Senior high school students study harder and harder than junior high school students. However, after children enter high school, their grades generally decline a lot. This is a normal phenomenon, but a small number of people do better in the college entrance examination than when the senior high school entrance examination is relatively simple. We must know that there are often more than 700 points in the senior high school entrance examination, and the college entrance examination is even rarer.

First, high school learning content is difficult.

Learning in high school is obviously much more difficult, and it is not at the same level as junior high school. For example, the math exam is very difficult at ordinary times, and not many people can get in. Our county scored more than 700 points in the senior high school entrance examination, but the math exam was not as good as mine, and we often failed. High school study, especially science study, depends on students with good memory in junior high school, but not in senior high school! I have seen many such examples. Only students with a solid understanding can have an advantage in high school. Even the study of liberal arts in high school is the same, and it is far from enough to rely on the backrest.

Second, the high school exam is particularly difficult.

I went to a key high school, and I was the top student in all schools. But in this way, there are only 120 students in our class, including me. Even our class teacher was frightened by the historical achievements, and few of them passed. There are not many students with geography scores above 70.

No one can keep the number one position in our class forever. And every time I look at the first place, the average score is better, and it is difficult to get the first place in a single subject. It can be seen that the high school exam is comprehensive and difficult. If you want to get the first place in the exam, you must be comprehensive. My high school grades were all below 480 (out of 750), but I didn't get 500. I didn't do well in the college entrance examination, scored more than 500 points and went to two universities. The same is true of other students, most of whom got the highest score in history. Our high school exam is too difficult. It is normal for junior high school students to get only 67 points, and only a few students in the school can get close to full marks.

Third, the learning method is suitable for junior high school but not for senior high school.

The learning methods and examination skills in junior high school are almost impossible in senior high school. We have a very good student who has been admitted to junior high school. Everyone asked him if he could attack again in high school. He saidno. People study hard in high school, and the importance of high school is obvious, but his grades in high school are average and he has not seen obvious progress.

When I was in junior high school, I saw many students make rapid progress in their academic performance with their super memory and achieved brilliant results. But in high school, only those students who are unknown and work hard for a long time will have explosive power and endurance, catch up bit by bit, and finally be admitted to a prestigious school. I have never met a student who suddenly did well in the junior high school exam.

In a word, high school is different from junior high school, and the learning content, test difficulty and learning method are higher than junior high school. Especially in key high schools, it is normal that academic performance is generally low.

After passing the senior high school entrance examination from junior high school, the children came to a bigger and wider stage. Many top students who are usually in junior high school may not be top students in senior high school, because many top students from different junior high schools can enter senior high school after the senior high school entrance examination, because the advantages of junior high school are no longer in senior high school. If you want to be a top student in high school, you must forget the glory of junior high school and start over in the middle of high school.

In life, some students with excellent grades in junior high school will not be able to maintain their excellent level stably after high school, and their grades may decline to a certain extent or greatly. Sometimes it makes people feel completely different and incredible.

This serious decline in high school performance is estimated to have the following reasons. We should carefully analyze the reasons, prescribe the right medicine, reverse the unfavorable situation of the downward trend, and lay the foundation for maintaining the glory of junior high school.

1. Some children work hard in junior high school and feel that it is also a good result to be admitted to the ideal high school after continuous struggle. They want to relax and stop.

Some children are top students in junior high school. In high school, the results are not outstanding and can not be recognized by teachers. Their classmates admire them very much, and sometimes they reveal their frustration.

3. High school courses are more difficult, more difficult to understand, and there are more courses.

After entering high school, it takes time to adapt to the new environment of new teachers and students.

After entering high school, some children are more tired and nervous than junior high school, and their mentality is very important.

Why do children's grades generally drop a lot after high school?

I am Zuiqingfeng, a rural middle school teacher. I answer this question by combining more than ten years' teaching experience and the results of continuous follow-up survey of graduates who have been sent away.

The two most important student selection in life, the senior high school entrance examination and the college entrance examination. After selection, some of them were eliminated, and those who stayed began to take the elite route. After the senior high school entrance examination is stratified, some children enter high school. After entering high school, some elite students began to decline, and students were anxious and worried by their parents.

Through six years' investigation, I know that our school is very similar after graduating from grade three and entering high school.

First, changes in the environment. When children come to the new capital, they can't adapt to the new environment. Children in rural areas, in particular, are easily lost by sudden prosperity when they come to cities from rural areas.

Second, relax. I think, after the efforts of grade three, I finally got into high school, so I can relax and have a rest. Some people even think that it is ok to attack high school at the last minute of junior high school (children with this idea are dangerous)

Third, get rid of parents' control and "go your own way". In junior high school, most of them are completed under the direct control of parents. In high school, most of them are far away from their parents, and parents can't do comprehensive supervision. Children also gained "freedom" for a period of time and became free enough under the supervision of "high pressure". In short, he was at a loss. Without the arrangement, guidance and command of my parents, I can play freely. The result can be imagined.

Fourth, learn new knowledge in the old way. Students who study well often have better methods. When I was in junior high school, I got the actual effect by mastering the method, which was generally brought to senior high school. However, the knowledge system, learning requirements and learning difficulty in senior high school are completely different from those in junior high school, and the old methods are no longer practical.

Fifth, high school knowledge is deeper and more difficult. Senior high school knowledge is more difficult than junior high school by more than one grade, and learning is more difficult and demanding, with more emphasis on logical thinking ability and analytical induction ability. And junior high school knowledge is in this respect, which is relatively simple.

Sixth, the teaching methods of senior high school teachers are different from those of junior high school. Teachers in junior high school and senior high school are obviously different in teaching methods and requirements. Most junior high school teachers will talk about it repeatedly, which is relatively simple and easy to learn. High school teachers don't have that much energy, and the teaching task is there.

Seventh, high school teachers cannot be as strict as junior high school teachers. After all, high school students are over 15 years old, and they are very close to adulthood. Children of this age are not easy to manage when their knowledge and self-awareness are gradually full. Junior high school students are relatively plastic and obedient.

After my investigation, junior high school students who graduated from our school often get poor grades in the first volume of high school, and gradually emerge from the second volume, and many will rise a lot until the college entrance examination in the second year of high school. First, rural children have greater potential and have not been suppressed too early. Children in rural areas rarely make up lessons, and there are fewer topics in the sea than in cities. Children in most cities play their full potential through infinite questions, while children in rural areas use up to 60% in junior high school. Once you complete the transition quickly in high school, master the methods and work hard, many people can drum up the army.

Second, complete the role transformation as soon as possible. Don't lie in history and enjoy spring. We should realize that the advantages of junior high school are gone now. After all, junior high school is more than a few hundred students in the whole school, and the highest number of high school students competing on the same stage is also based on the county. The college entrance examination and even provincial units, millions of people compete on the same stage.

Third, most parents are working outside the home, so there is not much supervision in junior high school, and it doesn't matter if there is no supervision in senior high school.

Suggestion: Guide children to complete the role change as soon as possible, adapt to the new environment, new teachers, adapt to the requirements of new textbooks, and explore a set of applicable and efficient learning methods as soon as possible, otherwise they will fall behind in Grade One and Grade Two, which will directly affect the college entrance examination and the future.

Before answering this question, look at the following dialogue:

This is a conversation sent by a parent after the first stage exam in Senior One. The child got the fourth place in the class and scored 89 points in chemistry and biology. The parents' first reaction turned out to be: only 89, so little?

Will children's grades really drop after high school? Listen to my analysis slowly:

First, there is a bad thing that makes mom think you didn't do well in the exam!

After every exam, mothers are the most anxious. No matter how the exam is, it seems that many mothers are not very satisfied. This is because:

1, parents are used to getting full marks in their children's exams! In junior high school, it seems not too difficult to get full marks in many subjects, but in senior high school, for most students, you basically don't even think about it. Look at the difference between the mid-term exam questions and the college entrance exam questions below, and you will know that it is not at the same level at all: in short, if you give a book in the junior high school exam, you will find the answer; There is also a high school exam. If I give you a book, you can't find the answer.

2. Parents are used to being parents of "good children"! Parents in junior high schools, especially those admitted to key schools, have become accustomed to the Excellence of their children. They are one of the best students in junior high schools. When these excellent students enter a new group, they will meet more excellent students, and they will exclude one, two and three. But parents don't know how good other children are, so as long as the ranking is not ideal, even if the child makes progress, she thinks it is a step backwards.

If parents can't rationally analyze their children's grades and label them as "not good at learning", they may really turn their children into children who can't learn well.

Second, there is a kind of bad, called the exam is not good!

From the beginning of high school, students will face a change, whether it is learning content or study habits, teachers' teaching methods, etc. They need to adapt. Some students adapt quickly, some students adapt slowly, some students have strong ability, and some students have weak ability. Therefore, after entering high school, the gap will gradually arise.

However, the gap is sometimes not as big as the results reflect!

For example, in the first year of high school, generally speaking, there will be 9 subjects in the examination. One of these nine subjects is not good, and the grades and rankings may change greatly, especially if the gap between students is small. Even if they do well in the exam, if each subject is 5 points worse than other students, the gap between them is 45 points, which will be very obvious in grades and rankings, but the reality is that the gap between them may not be that big.

Let's talk about homework again. It is normal for senior one to finish his homework. It's normal for them to be competent and serious. They may finish their homework well, and their academic performance is generally better. But some students have no time to manage, and their grades may be weaker.

However, with the decrease of learning content and the change of students' learning attitude, the gap between senior two and senior three may become smaller, and some students may have a counterattack.

Third, there is another bad place, that is, I really didn't learn well!

Some students, in high school, have no sense of urgency about their studies and their learning goals are unclear, so they know what they want to enter the university, but they can't tell what level of university they want to enter, and they can't figure out what their immediate goals are. I can't resist a little temptation, and my learning attitude is very incorrect;

There are also some students who will doubt their ability when they encounter temporary difficulties, and will become self-destructive and have no confidence in learning. After several exams, they will be defeated and lose the motivation to learn.

Such students do have difficulties in their studies. If it is not solved in time, it may be devastated and the results will be at the bottom.

Therefore, parents and students should rationally analyze the problem of children's declining grades and take it seriously, and don't blindly draw conclusions.

The polarization of key classes in Senior One is as high as 300 points, with the highest score of 870 and the lowest score of 550. Generally, those with low grades will enter ordinary classes, and those with good grades will be promoted to key classes. My children's grades dropped sharply after they entered high school. The main reason is that the teaching methods of teachers in key classes in senior high schools are different from those in junior high schools. Junior high school knowledge is shallow, the teacher speaks in detail, and students can easily digest and absorb textbook knowledge. High school teachers teach quickly in class, especially math, but they are only scratched and will not repeat. Some students in the class don't understand and can't work out the math problems. My child is anxious to call back and cry. I told the class teacher to let the math teacher speak slowly: the problem should be discussed thoroughly. In the next semester, my children's grades improved by more than 40, and there were 75 students in the class. Now ranked 17. In the summer vacation in July, the teacher secretly made up lessons for the students, and the children came home and told me that the math teacher didn't understand, alas! I can only tell my children that you don't know much about it yourself. Take time to do more problems and do them again and again. If you can't do it, do it ten times. The economy is not very good. You can't do one-on-one guidance, you have to rely on yourself.

Good grades in junior high school and poor grades in high school? There is a "watershed" in achievements, and these factors should be paid attention to!

With the end of the mid-term exam, many senior one students find that their grades can still maintain certain advantages in junior high school, but after a monthly exam and a mid-term exam, they unconsciously become underachievers.

You know, three years in high school is the time for students to prepare for the college entrance examination. Your grades will affect your future college entrance examination scores, and even determine whether you can enter an ideal university after graduating from high school.

If students can't keep the position of learning overlord from the first year of high school, it will be more difficult to achieve counterattack and strive to become a dark horse in the next study life.

In junior high school, some students got good grades, which were appreciated by teachers and won the favor of their classmates.

However, after entering high school, I suddenly became a scum. Compared with other students, my grades have reached a "watershed". What is the reason for this part of students to usher in such changes?

Good grades in junior high school and poor grades in high school? The class teacher reminds students and parents that when there is a "watershed" in students' grades, the following factors should be taken seriously.

Poor adaptability leads to the inability to keep up with the new learning environment, and it takes a process for students to fully adapt to the learning rhythm of senior high school.

There is no denying that there is a certain gap in students' adaptability. Those students with strong adaptability can enter the role of high school students in time, and then show higher learning efficiency in their study life.

Of course, some students with poor adaptability need more time to get familiar with the learning environment with high eyes and the new classmates and teachers around them.

Different adaptability makes students' learning efficiency different, which is reflected in their academic performance and has a certain gap; In the monthly exam and the mid-term exam, everyone ushered in the difference in scores.

Stress resistance determines success or failure, which is different from junior high school. After students enter the high school campus, they will face the situation of increasing learning tasks and difficulties.

Judging from the ability to withstand pressure, some students, in junior high school, can still bear the pressure of learning at that time; But after entering high school, once the pressure exceeds the bottom line they can bear, there will be anxiety and even weariness of learning.

It is conceivable that in the process of improving grades, if you are in an anxious state, it will easily affect your learning efficiency.

In the monthly exam, the psychological pressure of students who didn't get good grades increased, which affected the recent learning efficiency, and then reflected in the mid-term exam that they didn't get satisfactory grades.

Learning methods affect efficiency. In junior high school, many learning contents, such as chemistry and physics, are still in the primary stage, and students are only exposed; As long as you listen carefully in class and keep up with the teacher's rhythm, you can master it well.

However, when students become high school students, they have to put pressure on themselves and spend more time and energy on their studies.

If you don't change your learning methods in time and continue to use your previous learning methods, it will be very difficult to improve your scores and grades.

Under the heavy schoolwork, senior one students are easily separated by adaptable people if they don't change their learning attitudes and methods in time.

Psychological reasons, poor learning status for many students, in the junior high school stage, good grades can win the praise of teachers, at the same time, they will be tilted by teaching resources, which will unconsciously produce a certain sense of superiority.

However, after entering the high school stage, facing the same excellent classmates, everyone suddenly found that their advantages no longer existed.

Because of the mentality, some students can't keep a positive and enterprising state in their study and life, and their final grades have plummeted. It's a pity that they changed from bullies in junior high school to scum in senior high school.

There is a watershed in achievement. How do high school students adjust? Judging from the whole senior three, it is a common phenomenon that students fall behind in their grades.

However, those smart students will face the ups and downs of their grades with a rational attitude. They can keep an eye on the college entrance examination, constantly improve themselves, and finally win the opportunity to stand out in that key exam.

When students enter the high school campus, after several exams, they still have not achieved ideal results. How should they adjust themselves in the face of the gap in their achievements and the watershed in their studies?

Do a good job in preview before class

If students lack the advantage of adaptability, then everyone should make self-adjustment, strive to spend more time on study, and strive for the opportunity to adapt as soon as possible for themselves.

For freshmen in senior high school, if they want to improve their grades and adapt to the role of senior high school students as soon as possible, they may wish to prepare well before class.

"everything is established in advance, and it will be abolished if it is not planned." Everyone should be aware of this, find their own weak links and make a good study plan. If students are prepared in the process of learning, they can be targeted and easily improve their academic performance.

Enhance one's perseverance

Having a spirit of hard work will be of great benefit to our study and even to our future work and life.

For those students who are weak in pressure resistance, they need to constantly improve their perseverance in order to maintain their advantage in grades and successfully cross the threshold of the three-year college entrance examination in senior high school, so as to face challenges and pass various learning tests.

Students can improve their willpower by exercising in their normal study life, or they can persist for ten minutes more in the study process to exercise their perseverance. Without knowing it, everyone will benefit a lot.

Change learning attitude

When the environment changes, only by adjusting ourselves to the new environment can we take the lead and strive for more resources and opportunities.

As a senior high school student, we should realize that there are many differences in learning between junior high school and senior high school. Only by changing the attitude and method of learning can we better adapt to high school learning.

Students may wish to have a long-term plan, lock in the goal of college entrance examination and find a suitable learning method. They will improve their grades in an orderly way and get closer to the ultimate goal step by step.

Correct understanding of self

Even though some students have excellent grades in junior high school, they are tyrants in everyone's eyes; However, when we enter the high school campus, we will face more and stronger competitors.

Therefore, if high school students want to keep a normal mind and keep making progress, they must learn to know themselves correctly.

Put aside the previous sense of honor and win new applause and applause in the three years of high school with your own actions; Even if the immediate effect is poor, it is only temporary. I believe that through my own efforts, I can usher in a day of rapid progress.