Junior High School Student Exam Essay Full Coaching

Author: Liang Song
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: Step: Quickly Open Up Your Mind When Reviewing the Topic
1. Utilize the Cause-and-Effect Relationship to Open Up Your Mind
Everything is interconnected with other things, and for every cause, there is an effect, and for every effect, there is a cause. Based on the exam question, we can deduce the causes and effects of things to open up our thinking. For example, in the topic essay "Family Education," we can start with the cause-and-effect relationship: good family education enables children to grow up healthily and benefit lifelong; poor family education leads to children's underdeveloped growth.
Sample Essay: Releasing the Child (Anonymous)
Once, there was a person who raised an eagle, but later it escaped. A few days later, the eagle's body was found on a mountain. The owner couldn't figure out why the eagle would die for no reason. With the guidance of an elderly forest ranger, he opened the eagle's belly and suddenly realized. It turned out that while in the cage, the eagle had become too pampered and lost its ability to hunt, with an empty stomach, starving to death.
Children are eagles that will eventually leave the cage. Every parent and every family is just a temporary shelter. Ships destined to sail must eventually set out, and the storms they will face cannot be avoided. Many paths and dark nights in life can only be faced alone. A child's life cannot be replaced or borne by their parents.
However, look at China today—where are the eagles locked in cages? They have never been tested; they have always lived under their parents' careful care. When it comes to school, parents pick them up and help carry their backpacks; in daily life, parents do their laundry and help tie their shoes; even at summer camps, parents prepare enough food and large bags to hold dirty clothes.
Imagine such eagles flying out of the cage—how will they live? Beyond feeling the troubles and burdens of life, what else can they do? Tsinghua University once expelled a student because they didn't know how to dress themselves or tie their shoelaces. Another report mentioned a girl who couldn't eat eggs at school and had to cry her way home holding two eggs. Such absurdities are very real in life. Strange? Not at all! With such education, such children are inevitable.
Not every sugarcane grown with sugarcane juice will be sweet. A child's growth requires (mó lì), and their abilities can only be formed through such hardship. Makarenko once aptly said, "Excessive indulgence is a form of destruction for children." This is not sensationalism. Have you ever seen a solitary pine standing on a cliff? Why does its stem remain firm in the wind? Because when it pushed its body out of the rock, it had already endured countless hardships. Have you ever seen a butterfly fluttering gracefully? Why are its wings so strong in the sunlight? Because when breaking free from the cocoon, it used all its strength to push body fluid into its wings.
"Sharp swords are tempered from hardship, and plum blossoms are fragrant from bitter cold." "A white jade is not damaged, who would call it a precious stone?" The ancients may be gone, but their words still resonate. Some say: the future of a nation is not held in the hands of those in power but in the hands of mothers. Family education determines the fate of a nation. May all parents release their children from the cage and let them...