[Duy A Vu Dinh] Writing Practice Test 857053

The chart below shows the total number of Olympic medals won by twelve different countries. Ranging from 0 medals to 2500 medals.

Overall, the USA has the most medals, with a total of nearly 2500 medals. And on the other hand, Japan has the least number of medals, with about 300 medals, almost 4 times less than the USA. There's only five other countries which have another 500 medals, being the Soviet Union with 1000 medals, the UK with 750 medals, France with around 600 medals, Germany and Italy with slightly over 500 medals. While Sweden, Australia, Hungary, East Germany, Japan and China are all under 200 medals total.

The USA dominated in all types of medals, with nearly 1000 gold medals. over 500 silver medals and bronze medals. The Soviet Union came in second with almost 500 gold medals, and over 500 bronze and silver medals combined.

After the Soviet Union, the next four countries have an average of 250 gold medals, 350 silver medals and bronze medals combined. The last six countries have an average of 200 gold medals, 250 silver medals and bronze medals combined. Japan has the least gold medals and silver medals and China has the least bronze medals.

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Should Homework be given to students. Many said "yes" and many said "no". Both sides have good and strong reasons, so let's compare them wisely.

On the "homework is bad for students” side, most people argue that most homeworks is time consuming, and forces students to do it instead of spending their free time afterschool. This also keeps the students inside the house instead of letting them be active and explore the surroundings. Some even said doing homework gives tiredness, stress, and boredom, especially on exam seasons. It also slowed down the social skills development of active students. Many people agreed that homeworks and assignments should be given in another time, instead of after school time, so students could have time to rest at home.

On the other hand, "homework is good for students'' side argued that most homeworks is designed to be done in around fifteen to thirty minutes (Or in other cases thirty minutes to an hour), and students still have time to rest and enjoy their life. Also, imagine if students don't have homework, instead of playing outside, they will rather watch televisions or play video games. In fact, doing homework sharpens your skills in what you practice, like mathematics or memorizing skills.

If students can manage their time, they won't feel stressed or tired. Because they didn't do it right away, and the homework stacked up, this made them not want to do it anymore. Or because they do their homework and do other things at the same time. They will get easily distracted, but if you do it focusly, everything will be good. Also you will be prepared for the next lesson.

So I agreed that homework is good for you, as long as it is optimized and isn't time consuming. If teachers are abusing it, then it will became a good way to torture students.