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LGS’de son Viraj High School Transition System :
There is one week left for LGS (High School Transition System), which will determine the 4-year education life of 8th-grade students. In this long marathon, whose preparations began years ago, parents as well as students struggle and struggle. At the last corner, we listened to parents who were as stressed as the children and got recommendations from the experts.
Zeynep isman- Hundreds of thousands of students, who strive to get a high grade in the LGS (High School Entrance System), which has been held every year since 2018, and to make the transition to a good high school, are starting to prepare for this race years in advance. So much so that as soon as the 4th and 5th grades pass, private lessons begin outside the school. Parents compete with each other to get private lessons from teachers who are said to be experts in this field.
Sometimes coaches, psychologists, and nutritionists come into play. Children don't even have time to breathe, except for school, private lessons, and taking tests. In this period when adolescence makes itself felt both physically and emotionally, family conflicts, anxiety disorders, communication problems, and sometimes health problems arise. In this process, parents are worn out as much as children, because this is the test of parents as well. The LGS preparation process, which has become an industry, is not only morally but also financially corrosive.
As we entered the last corner of LGS, which will be held on Sunday, June 4, we received advice from experts on what to do academically and psychologically, and we gave the floor to LGS mothers, who had a year as stressful and anxious as the children.
LGS is a process, not a result. It measures skill, not just knowledge. The most important skill it measures is reading and reading comprehension. Moreover, it measures it both verbally and numerically. Acquiring this skill is not easy for our children, who become more and more masters of the digital world and stay away from books, but it is very necessary.
How should we spend the remaining days?
With a week left, it's no longer the time to learn something new, it's time to do lots of practice tests. You can come to the last two days with a brisk working order without rushing. It is not the place and time of risky vacation plans, overdose, and exhausting work performance. It is essential to stay away from the variability of air temperatures and risky activities in open areas for at least a few days.
It's pointless to say "that school saves" :
Because parents expect high results from students, large budgets are allocated to educators or coaches. Of course, every child needs support in different sizes and areas. However, it is important to know the current situation of the child well and to go over his potential. Educators walking with the family and the student should make frank and data-based comments on this issue. Otherwise, “This teacher saves, this school definitely puts it here, etc.” it's so pointless to say. You can trust a comment that says, “This school, that study, that teacher knows your child well and realizes your child's potential”. For this reason, it should be the preference of every family to walk with rational and experienced names in this regard.
Manage your exam break well :
This exam is actually an endurance test. It eliminates many students, especially in the spare time between the verbal and numerical sessions. The children who come out of the first session talk to each other about the questions and realize that they are wrong, causing them to enter the second part with anxiety. It is important to manage the break well, not to talk about the exam, and to rest.
Sleep and diet :
I have witnessed that students get sick on the morning of the exam or during the exam because their sleep and eating rhythms are disturbed. Care should be taken to establish a sleep pattern and not to eat different foods before the exam. It is impossible to achieve success by going to bed early on the last day or eating foods that have never been tried before, just because they are nutritious on the last night.
The attitude of the parents after the exam is important :
Parents may need support during this process. I definitely recommend that they get opinions and guidance from experts in their field. The most important thing here is to make sustainable choices that are suitable for our child, our future plans, and our pocket. This test can give us an idea of a child's current readiness, but it cannot define their future success. It is our most important responsibility to show that every child has an opportunity to realize himself.
After the deficiencies experienced in the online education process during the pandemic period, the process of adapting to formal education last year made some individuals very difficult. The earthquake disaster that followed and the LGS preparation process greatly affected the individuals in our cities where the earthquake occurred but caused different problems for each individual in the country.
LGS is perceived as a crisis that needs to be overcome in the growth process according to the educational perspectives of families and individuals in our country. This year, at the beginning of LGS-based complaints; I can say that there are situations such as deterioration in attention and concentration, decrease in work efficiency and self-confidence, seeing oneself as inadequate and worthless, sleep-appetite problems, and reluctance to go to school or private teaching institution.
The temperament of the child is important :
Although every child is different, the four factors that determine an adolescent's overall well-being are; physical, academic, social, and athletic development processes. In fact, parents have made efforts to increase functionality in difficult times, such as accepting some characteristics of temperament or providing their children with flexibility of thought, creating behavioral activation areas, by observing these differences more closely during the pandemic's confinement processes.
The situation that parents most desire is to give their children the responsibility of preparing for LGS. However, parents also show signs of anxiety with the thought that they are "incomplete compared to others" as parents by being caught in the flow of the system.
Negative thoughts should be turned into positive :
Having unrealistic ways of thinking about the exam is the most important factor in the formation of anxiety. Anxiety becomes more observable in perfectionist and competitive personality structures.
Parents' children's automatic negative thoughts such as "Exams are unnecessary", and "I don't remember anything"; can be supportive in a positive reorganizing role with situation-emotion-thought and alternative ways of thinking.
In the next week, it will be important to stay away from disaster scenarios. For this, controlled breathing exercises, shifting attention to another direction, for example; may help to move your senses in another direction by touching the soles of your feet to the ground.
What do LGS mothers say?
G.S.: When my daughter was in the 4th grade, I said that my child would never experience LGS stress. I can't believe I'm in this situation. When our school's high school did not open and the fees of private schools skyrocketed, we were forced to enter this competition in the seventh grade. We are talking about whether or not to give sandwiches to the children for an exam that starts at 9:30 in the morning and ends at 13:00. "At the very least," he continues, "I'll have walnuts and juice." "No" is our response. If my child has a special day, he will not even be allowed to bring a pad.
Girls are more disadvantaged in this regard. Emotions, hormones and not wanting to study but also wanting to be successful. Every time my wife said to my daughter, “We will not let you throw your life away. Even if you try and fail, you are worth 500 points in our eyes.” As parents, we are also very stressed. During this period, I had a slight heart palpitation. On the afternoon of June 4th, we will definitely ring the bell and play, as all the parents are just finished.
Aslihan Aydin: LGS is a difficult process for both the child and the family. In our opinion, the first duty of the family is to follow the psychology of the child in this long and difficult process and to help him get through with the least damage. While our daughter was preparing for the exam, there were many times when we questioned ourselves, "What are we doing to our child? I think this will be very useful in high school and university and will make your life easier. We try to keep our own psychology intact by looking at it like this. If the psychology is strong, I think success will come.
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