Twenty Sure Principles To Success In Any Examination by Ekekere Samuel Ufot - HTML preview

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TAKE A TREK

I have being used to walking long distance. I even had a tag around me for that. My friends nicked named me Philipilis, a replica of the Grecian Philipilis. I found myself under the circumstance that life offered to have the prerogative of enjoying the huge benefits of trekking.

When I speak to my students about taking a long trek at least once a week, they laughed it off as some impossible task that I was asking them to do. Why should someone think of taking a trek over a long distance when there is public transport? What relationship does trekking have with passing examinations. They were cynical about my offer. I needed to make them see from my angle.

I try as much as possible to walk long distance at least once a week. What actually necessitated this are.

• The need to stay fit. Any serious student has to stay fit to study. When I walk long distance, I exercise my body and mind. I release pathogens from the body by the sweat that pours out. The brain tends to walk effectively when it is subject to a mental reawakening that comes with exercises. I hardly fell sick however tedious school work was.
• The need to absorb my surroundings. When I walk long distance, it’s often an opportunity to marvel at how change is happening. I discover new things very often and it gives me the privilege to mentally reassess my ability to analyze and produce quickly solutions to problems in society which my academic leanings can help me proffer.
• The need to increase my mental capacity. Sincerely, there has being medical proofs to the belief that exercise can help increase our mental capacity. Is trekking actually an exercise? Yes it is. The more we engage in exercising our body; we develop an increased ability to think. Our analyzing capacity improves remarkably and difficult sums become mincemeat.
• To lose unwanted fat. I don’t know if you have observed this along with me but I have observed that those who do very well in examinations are not often fat. It’s actually rare to see a fat person come tops in class. Fat actually causes drag and becomes a burden for even the serious student who wants to succeed. The reason is that fat persons are susceptible to sleeping for so long and they easily get tired. When we walk out the fat, we become smart enough to take the responsibilities of the day in one swipe. Reading and preparing for our examinations will not become a problem.
• The need to allow the production and continuous flow of blood. Taking a walk could increase blood metabolism. The heart tends to work better and blood flows with ease. Heart attack becomes less of a problem. When the body produces and transmits blood effectively, it allows for the calmness of the mind. This does propels the brain to work effectively because of the effective flow of blood around it.

Often when I take a cross country walk around my city, I feel a sense of youth arrive. I study changes in my environment and even find a way to solve the problems that come around. As a thinking man, I know some of the best ideas are not the ideas gotten in the comfort of our homes because that’s not actually where the problems are. The problems are on the street. If we don’t get on the street and look out for them, we will not get them.

I think the dearth of ideas by our scientist and engineers especially is because most of them have not entertained the benefit of taking the long walk around where they reside. There are many problems on our streets that bright minds could work out in their projects at school and see how to help society overcome those challenges. We constantly wait for foreigners to produce inventions based on their own experiences and local needs and import them here to apply them to solve our problems without tweaking them for our own effectiveness.

If our academic scholars at the universities understand that they don’t need to browse the internet for projects, that they just have to walk round their cities for problems they could solve, our nation will indeed be a better place.

It’s mind blowing a feeling that could arrive when you have a grasp between what you study at school and how it affects society. My interaction overtime has revealed that many students get to school only to come out saying that they never saw the relationship between what the teachers or lecturers taught at school and real life. The truth is they are often wrong. They just never took a walk around to discover that all the scientific principles being taught at school actually find use in everyday life, only that the comfort of life eases that knowledge off.

I am very particular about taking a long trek around even your immediate environment. Businessmen can only find opportunities in a location when they walk around the location and see what isn’t available which they think can be of market value. The boundless opportunities that abound in business appear mostly to those whose eyes will see from a slower pace than the everyday bus or taxi transport can afford.

From experience, I have observed that those who actually have a full grasp of what the lecturer or teacher teaches and can align those thoughts with their environment find it easier to store knowledge as compared to those who are incapable of relating what the teacher teaches with what they see around them. Trekking provides that platform for the interaction that is meant to aid the store of information and the capacity to remember them during examinations. Information stored in object form can easily be remembered when we can visualize the object.

Trekking shouldn’t be a difficult task if one desires to get ahead with remembering for the purpose of writing examinations. Just take a walk and make it solemn. You can easily do some of those minds and brain probing on the go and it is easier when you are walking.

I must stress that such treks should be leisurely done. Don’t expect it to be easy a task at first. You have to push till it happens just the way you want it i.e. until you succeed in your examinations.