Homework
is argued to play an important role at school.
While
some people support
this
idea and think
homework
could make memorised data that
students
learned
last
longer, I strongly believed there is not much use for
homework
in real-life practice nowadays.
According to
some,
homework
is one of the main ways to practice skills. It boosts memorise skills by giving learners tasks to finish
as well as
supports
students
' familiarity with learned information.
For instance
, a survey reported by Hailong National Highschool educational researchers reveals most of the
students
who did their
homework
are able to immediately demonstrate solutions to the problems they learned through the previous
lessons
. Practising answers by doing
homework
not only gives the student the advantage of remembering the
lessons
but
also
teaches them the forbearing virtue.
Homework
can take a
while
to finish so in order to finish, the learners must be patient to bear with the difficulty of practicing the knowledge.
Also
, schools could gain the upper hand in
this
study
method since teachers would give pupils scores based on their performances on
homework
and not have to waste
time
creating tests.
In my opinion,
homework
takes too much
time
for
students
to
study
only one lesson per subject
thus
it is not an efficient use of
time
. I think pupils have already been given sufficient
time
at school to do exercises to understand
lessons
, they should not be kept at home to do more work.
Instead
of wasting
time
on recalling learned data by an inefficient and tedious technique
such
as doing
homework
,
students
would understand evidently the
lessons
in horizontal and vertical depths through actual observation and real practice. By applying the knowledge they have learned to real-world situations,
students
find it easier to memorise the
lessons
without hours of mindlessly filling in blanks.
Moreover
, there is plenty of other know-how to help
students
study
effectively
such
as using a Pomodoro timer to organise
study
time
, taking notes in the Cornell method or simply changing the
study
environment. These are all proven to be good methods for practising
lessons
by scientists and used by many successful
students
.
To summarise, though doing
homework
still has its benefits, I believe it is not worth the
while
since there are countless
study
methods
besides
completing
homework
that save
time
and still serve the purpose of helping
students
deeply understand
lessons
from school.