Sunday, February 6, 2011

Exercise has positive effect on student’s academic performance

Students who are reasonably active can do better in college. Physical exercises are essential for good academic performance. Given the aforesaid argument, I have three reasons that will, without doubt, support this claim. The first reason is to increase the concentration in class, then I will discuss how student can minimize their absences, and finally, what make students learn faster. The following paragraphs will show this in detail.

Exercise will increase concentration in class. The main reason for this is that, doing exercises during morning hours would increase alertness of students and reduce drowsiness feeling, which is normally reflected in more concentration in class. For example, think about two students. The first student woke up early, and prepared well for his classes. Then he was doing some light exercises before going to his class. The second student woke up early, and then he went directly to his class without exercise. Which one do you think would be more concentrated in class?. Actually, it is clear that students would be more aware and focused when they do little exercise before going to class. On the next paragraph we will see another reason supporting my idea.

Doing exercises will help students to attend all classes and they will never miss any class. You think this is not possible? No it is possible because, Students who do regular exercises are having healthier bodies. When the immune system is functioning well the body is less susceptible to diseases, those students normally will not come down with any sicknesses, and as a result they will not miss out on any classes. As an example of this, when a student is not healthy, normally he is missing a lot of classes not because he is not interested, but he was not able to attend the class because of his illness. Academic institutes are really cracked down on attendance. Students can cut down on absences by doing little exercises every day. The following paragraph shows additional indication of physical exercises’ benefits on student academic performance. 

Physical exercises are helping students to learn faster. Perhaps the most compelling argument that one could make is that, students normally live in stressful conditions. When students are under pressure of exams, homework, quizzes, and other related things they feel stressful, and their ability to understand or think would go to its lowest performance. Scientific studies showed a lot of evidences that linked physical exercises as one of the best reliever of stress. So reducing stress and anxiety would help students learn faster, which, in return improve their grades. For example, there are some students who cannot handle being under stress of exams. They feel terrible before exams, this actually affecting them negatively, but when they are doing exercise before studying for exams, this make them feel better because exercises reduce their tension and stress. Actually, it boiled down to this, Students would learn and understand the lectures better if they are not under stress, they should do exercises to cut down on stress. When their mind is clear they would learn faster, and understand better.

In short, Brain functions and body health are all scientifically having positive relationship with physical exercises. So, Students who are looking forward to getting high scores, they should focus in on exercising every day. Also they can come up with new ways to do exercise which help them to be healthier and more active. Personally, I think that, we can come up with a lot of ideas to do exercises inside campus. Also the university itself should come out with advertisements to increase the student’s awareness to the reality of doing exercise and encourage them to do best and get higher grades.

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