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What is the purpose of homework? Why do you have to do it? Is it an opportunity for your teachers to be nasty to you and to set you extra work? Is it so we can inconvenience you and interfere with your social life? Is it to increase your teachers’ marking load, because they love marking so much?
Surprising as it may seem, none of these reasons are correct. You may be surprised that homework is, actually, for your benefit, though it may not seem so to you. There are several main reasons for setting and doing homework
1) to consolidate what you’ve already covered in class, to give you a chance to feel confident that you know and understand what you’ve been taught
2) to prepare for work that you’re going to cover in class, to give you a foundation for what you're about to do
3) to give you time and opportunity to learn and revise every thing you’ve done in a particular subject before a test or before exams
4) and, finally, to give you the time and the opportunity, and the experience, of what its like to work on your own, without your teacher or friends, possibly over a number of weeks, doing project work or coursework for your GCSEs. Working on your own like this is sometimes called independent study.
Homework is a very individual thing but it is easy to slip into bad habits that mean your homework is not as good as it could be.
• Homework should be done at home, not on the bus or in the library at lunchtime.
• You should have all of the things you need for your homework, including text books, exercise books pens pencils etc etc. For, without the right equipment, how can you hope to do your best work? So be organised.
• Do your homework somewhere quiet so you can concentrate on it fully. Avoid distractions like the television, music and people chatting to you –any distraction will break your concentration.
• Set aside enough time –say an hour- to complete your work and when you’ve finished –and not before- reward yourself by doing something you like and enjoy doing.
• And finally, avoid the temptation of putting it off until later, or tomorrow, or the weekend –you might never get it done.
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