What would happen in consequence of intense pressure?

Nowadays, most of the students worry about something related to school work during their school life such as the way of studying efficiently, maintaining good grades in their classes, attending high level universities, and so on. This is what they have to confront and overcome if they hope to graduate from great universities to become part of elite. Since everybody knows a person's educational background is all important in most countries, students' parents and teachers often strongly expect them to achieve remarkable feats in their school. However, it would change into pressure, and weigh on students' mind. When students have to endure tremendous strain to pass the exam, some of them can get over it due to the fact that they know how to deal with it, but it is almost impossible for others to do it well. That is because once this pressure swell up in their mind, they cannot act the way they usually do, then they would achieve a bad result. Thus, the strong pressure to overcome the difficulties in academic area brings various bad consequences for students. The first, intense pressure leads to the emotional instability. Generally speaking, extreme puressure exerts psychological influence on people. For example, some people are crushed with anciety, they cannot organize their thoughts, they inadvertently make small mistakes in spite of the fact that they pay a often lot of attention to it. Here is my friend's experience. When he was in the junior high school, he failed the entrance exam for his top choice high school because of his parents' pressure. Since he was an only child, he sometimes told me that he wanted to meet his parents' expectations by obtaining the permission from the high school. However, as his parents expected too much him to enter the high school as high as possible. As a result of that, he was under the intense pressure to pass the exam, and he could not show his true ability. After finishing the entrance exam, he told me he could not even read the questions. Next, high academic pressure causes physical violence. Takashi ohta said, “In Japan, high academie pressure has led to home violence, school violence, and rejection of schools.”(qtd. in Lin, Qinghai 159). As students' parents expect too much their sons or daughters to study hard in order to gain the admission to the top school, they use violence to their sons and daughters if they refuse parents' orders to study or hebave treacherously. For example, Jing Lin and Chen Quinghai says, “When 3-year-old Hu Dandan forgot a word in the poem his father was teaching him, the father exploded in anger. He boxed the boy's ears, then kicked him, sending him reeling into a closet. Hours later, Hu Dandan died ofhead injuries.”(159). In the worst case, parents kill their own sons or daughters like the example as stated above. Other consequence of academic pressure is impact on students' health. Students sometimes have something wrong with their body such as lack of sleep and loss of apitite even if they continue to study smoothly. One of my friend had a similar experience. He didn't have any option except for public school because of his family's money problem when he decided his preferred school. Therefore, he tried to study as hard as possible to meet his parents' expectation. However, he always worried about entrance exams no matter how much he stadied because he noticed the diffeculty of getting the permission from high level public universities. Since he was so nervous that he had a severe stmachache on the examination day, he couldn't pass it finally, and he had to study for another year. This is not a rare case that when students feel they are under heavy pressure, then it will threaten their psysical condition. Besides, the pressure also affects students' psysical ability, especially their eyesight. they have to study until late at night everyday because of their parents' pressure. Therefore they abuse their eyes to stare at textbook, and it decrease their vision. Jiang Naichiang comments, “According to a 1988 national survey on students' physical development, 18% of the primary school students were near-sighted, so are 49% of the secondary school students, and 73% of college and university students. The trend is on the increase every year” (qtd in 158). It is simply the result of the fact that most of the students overwork themselves in order to overcome intense pressure to have straight A's in school or pass the entrance examination. Finally, consequence of academic pressure is the effects on relationship with friends. Although almost every student wants to get permission from top schools, the amount of seats available are limited. Hence, they have to compete to other students for the seats necessarily. It dosen't mean that conpetition with others are always bad, but it could ruin their reationship. In my case, I had already decided to go to the university through the recommendation system when I entered high school. However, one of my friend also had a plan to get the recommendation from the same school as me, and both of our teachers expected strongly us to get it. Though I could build a good relationship with him at first, later it gradually worsened because there was only one recommendation from my high school. Thus, if the pressure from the adult around students is too severe, it could destroy relations between the students. Academic pressure does not necessarily cause bad consequences. A certain level of pressure enable students to focuse more on their study. However, these are almost harmful to students such as negative impacts for health, ability, domestic violence, and so on. That is because their parents and teathers expect too much them to get academic success. Therefore, when students feel they are under severe pressure, they should consider about how to deal with it, and their parents should pay attention to such various bad consequences.