TOEFL essay: Some students prefer to study alone. Others prefer to study with...

[Lime]

Some students prefer to study alone. Others prefer to study with a group of students. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Despite of being a lot of advantages in a study with a group of students, I would prefer to study alone. But certainly that does not mean that it would be better for everybody. The choice will depend on students’s character and brain abilities.

There are some subjects where existence of opponent is essential. For example, group exercises are vital and indispensable for language study. You can not start to speak foreign language fluently just after reading grammar and dictionary. Study with a group is effective as well because you can see the achievement of other students and compare it with your own progress. By observing other students results it is possible to find out your own strong and poor qualities.

By studying alone nobody can help you, listen you, correct you or give you advice. Nevertheless, at the same time you are just with yourself and nobody can disturb or divert you. There is no such convenient and comfortable conditions as working alone. In that case it is possible to take a break at any time, repeat each exercise that is difficult for you as much as you want, determine the sequence of studied material. Nobody knows your abilities and learning requirements better than you. The better you are mastering by you own, the more independent you are getting. Thus, simultaneously ability of independently thinking and decision making is improved. It is known that the most incredible world inventions were made by scientists, who worked alone at their own projects.

What about me, so the most essential condition for myself is silence. Furthermore, in general I have the character property to understand and remember words and equations more slowly than other students. That is why I choose self-study.

[Alan]

HI,

Despite THERE being a lot of advantages in a study with a group of students, I would prefer to study alone. But certainly that does not mean that it would be better for everybody. The choice will depend on THE/A students’s character and brain abilities.

There are some subjects where THE existence of AN ADVERSARY/opponent is essential. For example, group exercises are vital and indispensable for language study. You cannot start to speak A foreign language fluently just after reading grammar and dictionary. Study with a group is effective as well because you can see the achievement of other students and compare it with your own progress. By observing other students' results it is possible to find out your own strong and WEAK qualities.

By studying alone nobody can help you, listen TO you, correct you or give you advice. Nevertheless, at the same time you are just BY yourself and nobody can disturb or divert you. There ARE no MORE convenient and comfortable conditions THAN working alone. In that case it is possible to take a break at any time, repeat each exercise that is difficult for you as much as you want, determine the sequence of studied material. Nobody knows your abilities and learning requirements better than you. The MORE you are IN CONTROL ON you own, the more independent you GET/BECOME. Thus, simultaneously THE ability TO THINK independently and MAKE A decision is improved. It is WELL known that the most incredible world inventions were made by scientists, who worked alone at their own projects.

What about me? The most essential condition for myself is silence. Furthermore, in general I have the TYPE OF character to understand and remember words and equations more slowly than other students. That is why I choose self-study.

Alan
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