By Hu Wo (Cuckoo’s Song)

How are you today, little sister? I hope with all my heart that you are in the pink, but surely a wave of home­sickness is always sweeping over you. It too will pass, you know. I ab­solutely feel sympathetic towards you as a student who studied away from home for two or so years. And I am longing to meet you again like before. Here, I will tell you a little bit about your study life in school subjects.

1) Always remember to prior­itize your health.

It goes without saying that health is wealth. Of course, good health is usually found to be the most important thing in a whole life because as long as you have your health, anything else does not matter. Otherwise, you will not be able to do your daily study routines or even trivialities without it. Where there is health, there is still life and so is hope. Thus, health must be put first in what­ever you do, mainly for physical, mental and emotional readiness to study. Excellent health often gets influenced by your everyday activities, mindset, facing weather conditions and healthy, balanced diet. Don’t be such a fussy eater, please. Your food, drink and cloth­ing should be geared to the current weather situations in which you are living, too.

2) Set your lifelong ambition.

Ambition mostly becomes a strong drive for one’s a better life in that it can arouse intrinsic mo­tivation so as to lead this life. In other words, you will never lose your bearings along the route to education provided that you have got only a burning ambition for life. What’s more, the students that have already set their lifelong ambitions are commonly seen to study harder than those who are suffering from a lack of them. If you have not yet put your lifelong am­bition, you have to do your studies at hand as best as you can. In fact, you had better have thought about your dream which should come true to you in the future.

3) May you own your self-learning styles only.

We are different, to a greater or lesser degree, from each other over our likes and dislikes. That means we tend to fix our time for study at will and personally, I prefer studying at night lest my today’s school lessons have passed tomorrow without being commit­ted to memory. Actually, study time ought to be well free from your housework, play, rest, and sleep. Following that, your time of study needs to be with any regularity, also helping interest you in study work. Your very achievement of school subjects is apparently conditional upon regular study, memorization, conceptualization, practice, revision and repetition whichever learning style you live out or imitate. Even so, it would be better for you to keep your pri­vate style of study now that such styles put you at your ease while studying.

4) Never forget to take contin­uous stamina throughout the whole academic year.

Stamina does not mean that you will be studying all the time but says that you have got to study regularly without fail until the end of an academic year. It is natural that the longer the academic year has passed, the less concentration on the study the majority of stu­dents will have. By the mid-term, even some outstanding students frequently feel as though they have been lost. Certainly, the three keys to success are nothing but taking risks, stamina, and hard work.

More importantly, make sure that you shall take your stamina to carry on a study as normal till the end of the term.

5) Please look at sample ques­tion formats or past papers if possible.

Truth be told, to do well in ex­ams does not require studying a subject from A to Z at all, and yet you will need to study enough. As such, sample question formats and past papers may probably tell you which section or how many chap­ters you should have studied to pass all exams with ease. In those sheets are normally question items regarding the nature of sub­jects: true-false items, blank items, multiple-choice items, matching items, short-answer items, and essay items. Great care is needed when reading a piece of question paper so that you can find out a few question clues over there or will be able to guess the answers to some questions sometimes, not bluffing.

6) Just develop positive atti­tudes towards exams.

These days education almost always goes hand in hand with exams or tests. An exam not only turns out to be an essential tool for the present education but also can most likely decide the future of each and every student. However, any exam would not be the end of the world, even if you had failed it like a bull in a china shop. In prac­tice, life looks like a much more difficult exam than we thought. After you have sat an exam, you must be capable of seeing your own strengths, weaknesses and limited abilities on the subject mat­ter as well as learning from your mistakes which were carelessly or forgetfully done in the exam. Most importantly, don’t make the same mistake again in exams.

7) Establish a friendly relation­ship with peers and teachers.

It is said that there is no place like home, for a home is a place full of family members’ love and care. Nevertheless, when you go away from home, the nearest person to you will be the most important one of yours indeed. Did you know that man is a social animal? It is virtually impossible for people to live alone. Hence, you should make friends with your classmates and even your teachers. You may find it easily flexible and adaptable to im­prove a friendly relationship with your peers and teachers as well.

My letter will give you a fistful of study tips, I think. Above all, what I would like to say is ``Take good care of your health´´. I wish you to fly high in the future. Have a nice day!