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This is the pressure that we live under | Morgan Klee | TEDxBlythswoodSquare


hi my name is Waddington I’m 16 and I’m
a freshman in high school
you’re probably wondering why sexting
you know it’s going to be a charity that
you probably already know and I’m here
to talk about the stress that young
people feel and skill through exams and
their desire is about an overview some
nice topic makeup a controversial but if
someone who sat seven exams last year
and it’s still part of the education
system that I and I just like the
variable is just like the impact that
this case had on my mental and physical
it’s the last chance at seven exams and
I got your skill every day and up at
7:20 I go to school I can’t read the
inner man skill for half past eight
school starts at 22 name and I stayed
after the name seven hours most days
with anglers supported study which they
say as I’m composing it but then if we
don’t go like we can want out the next
day and we must have a valuable is
favorite ankle and you best hope you
don’t fail the next test or else that’s
the reason why because you might say
that one supported study session with
angle home be sacked for hours upon
hours doing homework until I turn the
morning sacrifice in our sleep so that
we can study or revise or do our
homework were then expected or
recommended to the two hours personal
study for each subject Monday fainting
our five subjects such a hours a night
last year had seven subjects where
exactly so less time coming from we’ve
then recommended to do one hour of
exercise each day we’re then encouraged
to make new friends make copies who
wouldn’t do stuff that we enjoy doing
take walks hang out Finn spent a mere
families there’s not enough time in the
day then whoops get eight hours of sleep
when exactly is all that steam coming
from one of my friends told me that I
think that the reason she stayed off
still miss because she was so tired she
woke up because she was studying all
night in South Florida the morning she
woke up and she physically could open up
open her eyes
they were swollen shut and she felt the
air service to come and establish with
the collapse of exhaustion we the last a
hundred and ninety five days a year
and it becomes tired like I’m so tired
all the time
it’s gotten to the point where half the
sacrifice either
would I still wouldn’t like something
from the walking dead that for not the
normal work we get more dadada badminton
cook into the we should go a bit earlier
what exactly defines early just the
narrow
the morning I’ve left the boy slit
parenting get more sleep and be a cop
and straighten my hair if they don’t
witness filled my head and a bulb or a
button and then um the way that scotch
exams worked and Scotland as 8% is made
of the exam paper and an egg 20% is made
of horse Park and that sheriff example
McCamish the example I’m setting higher
chemistry and the assignment is when the
twenty marks and the natural Bratton
papers of the day of the exam is worth a
hundred marks
so that’s assignments only worth around
17% so what happens if I have an off day
and the chance that maybe I forget
something or like I have a breakdown or
something which I’ve done in an exam
just please don’t know and then so what
happens after at that whole year and
that counts for nothing
like at the end the day I’m still gonna
walk up as I feel if I mess up like
there’s no there’s no big Satna kind of
thing unless I want to spend a whole new
year learning the same thing I already
learned last year and have any said the
same exam again it just doesn’t seem
logical and causes unnecessary stress
I’ve always been play a nervous person
have suffered quite a lot with panic and
anxiety attacks and last year got really
bad on the months leading up to my exam
I was half on almost every day sometimes
twice a day and the exam I would try and
cameras everything like it through the
attacks coming on and acted like my
cheeks heartbeat-like started sweating
and stuff shaking and I’d have to join
calm myself down in a room talk to 70
other people all sadness in a second
last example so I just and my English
exam there’s only 40 count myself time
and had to run it example in in ended up
setting my exam in a separate room
someone else in the school it just if
that doesn’t show you how stressful
exams actually are at then ago who
taught us an America the they have their
only graded on
perform that day but they’re also
created throughout the year so there are
federal marks are composed of the
electives that they’ve done and class in
the quizzes which we have this accent in
an order to a set the Fig Newton but it
doesn’t it doesn’t came fillings in
their participation so reason are
handling class the completion of
homework which we have to do for nothing
and so it’s kind of an average or they
get which I think with like a lemony
over the kind of stress that we feel
because it doesn’t give so much patch on
that one example a part for but it’s
more like a bit clearly it gets nothing
and then um and Finland they are they
have the highest gotcha
like percentage and and Europe and their
number one of the one who through the
education but yet they have most Anton I
space they don’t do homework until high
school and even when they do it’s when
we leak too many minutes their education
systems more like teaching the chayote
it’d be happy and have their stuff that
they love and teaching them about the
expansion and virtuality rather than
Chairman everything on Elias and to
finish the course so that we can specify
in our case and then we’re sinners who
leave the example for the other person
and I think that that’s what Julie
benefi F like everyone not just the
teachers because that would you just
don’t work with but also the students
because of it reduces stress levels and
just like leave a lot more time for us
there’s stuff that we enjoy like play
sports I learn arrears quench Duman and
I know the education system here it does
work obviously actresses that like I’ve
got seven days last year but what are
the people that don’t have the skill or
the capacity that practically apply
their knowledge that the that we’ve
learned over here and the exams for
questions that we do
how you answer like as it really was
jeopardizing their students mental
health and self-esteem just so that we
pass again [Applause]
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