Students lose sleep due to homework conducted, especially, recent, survey, junior

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A sleepy student rubs his eyes during a ceremony held to open a new semester at Xiangming Junior High School, in Shanghai, on Sept 1. Provided to China Daily

    SHANGHAI - Homework, especially in mathematics, is what junior and senior high school students most often blame for their lack of sleep, according to a recent survey.
     The survey, conducted by the city's Xuhui District Education Bureau, polled more than 20,000 students from 39 junior high schools and found that about 60 percent of them spend from two to four hours a day on homework. It also found that senior high school students sleep fewer than seven hours a day on average, which is one hour fewer than the Ministry of Education recommends.
      In China, students from the ages of 13 to 16 go to junior high school and from 16 to 19 to senior high school.
"People are becoming concerned more about the workloads of high school students," said Pu Zhengquan, deputy director of Xuhui District Education Bureau. "That's why we conducted this survey. We think we should reduce the pressures students are under and give them more spare time."
Of all school subjects, the survey respondents said they spend the most time on mathematics. Many complained that their math homework is too difficult.
      An extreme example of what school pressures can drive students to occurred on Oct 24, when two girls in an Anhui province primary school attempted to commit suicide by drinking poison in their classroom. One of them left a message on the blackboard, saying "if we die, it's our math teacher's fault. Please call the police and have her arrested".
An investigation found the teacher had laughed at them after they had made low grades on a test.
     "I hate math," said Wang Jingying, a high school student in Anhui province, who will take China's university-entrance examination next year. "Even though I've already worked hard at it, I still can't do lots of those problems."
Wang said she fell behind in her math classes after she had entered high school.
     " The math problems are getting more difficult," she said. "Our math teacher only cares about those students who achieve excellent scores. She always loses her patience if we approach her to ask 'simple' questions."
Wang said she finds it difficult to understand what her teacher is discussing in class and has to pay extra for after-school courses.
      Mathematics courses in China are widely believed to be more difficult than those found in the United States and many other countries.
    "My son always did really well in math in the United States," said Wang Huayun, whose family migrated to the United States on 2009.
    "But he was pretty weak at math when he was in China."
     Mathematics is considered one of the three most important subjects for Chinese students, the other two being Chinese and English. No student can hope to enter college without being good at math.
     Many students go so far as to give themselves extra math homework to help improve their performances at school
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  this survey reminds me of my experiences once i had.i often spend at least 3 -5 hours on homework.sometimes my face had been bathed in tears as i couldnot keep on.i was at loss why i am so poor and the teacher is so hateful .in one word ，there is no one can be happier and harder than student who is filled with his parents‘ love and hope.how do you do when you are a student ？are you  as poor as me？

李武军

well I love doing math homework. It's challenging for me. when I have finished it, I feel so happy. So long as you have interests, nothing is bad as we think.

shenyumen8800

I like maths,I am good at maths in the primary and junior school,however, when I enter into
the junior  school ,because my english  is poor  ,so I spend much time on learing  english,
it cost little time for maths, my grade of  maths became  worse and worse ,the situation last to the three  junior high school. In order to  improve  grade of maths, I make a study plan for learing maths,I spent three hours at least  on studying maths,I insisted thirty weeks for learing maths,my grade of maths improved very quickly, and I  acquire the second place  on  practise  test at school . at the same time,I am  more and more interesting in maths,therefore, I acquire one hundred and twenty-eight score grade of the maths in the college entrance examnation, I was matriculated by the collenge of jing xi shi fan  .

wanxiaer113

maths is the hatest （is of hate） subject for me. i can rarely pass （in）the maths test during junior and senior  high scool. i know the importance of the subject's（subject） , so i must spent the most of time on studying it. it's really a hard time.but  hard work pays off,  the maths‘ score of the college entrance examnation is not bad,  so（that） i have the opportunity to go to university.

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回复 2# 李武军


    you will be a superman if you have a interest.being famous guys are usually from interests.so we should make most use of our interests.

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回复 3# shenyumen8800


    congratulations！ at the same time，we ought to learn from your  experience--no pains，no gains.the more hardworking，the more harvest.

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回复 4# wanxiaer113


    congratulations. the truth is that no pains ，no gains.