My child has semester exams, the whole family is anxious.

10 days before, the teacher gave the students a review outline, detailing each writing exercise, word and sentence practice; types of math problems such as addition and subtraction, finding x, converting units of mass and measurement. The teacher discussed the exam schedule with the parents in the class's Zalo group, asking them to closely monitor the children.

So every day, my parents took turns studying with me, urging me to do my homework, and guiding me through difficult problems. Not only did I finish all the exercises in the textbook the teacher gave me, I also challenged my child to solve similar calculations and problems. Only when my child grimaced and complained of being tired, having a sore arm, or having a headache, did my mother let me rest and urge me to prepare my books for school the next day.

I also suffer from the disease of achievement like many other parents. My daughter is the youngest in the class, my mother only gives her a little concession but she still has to carry her books to study every night with her mother accompanying and supervising. I use all kinds of tricks, from coaxing, threatening to forcing her to study this way or that. She writes with a fountain pen, her handwriting is very bad. I make her practice writing, writing slowly, writing at the right size and line.

Every night when there is little homework, mother and child practice writing together so that the child does not get bored. Every night, mother and child study, from Math and Vietnamese to English. Children now study at school all day, teachers and students practice knowledge over and over again, but parents are still not satisfied. Even though the child is only in first or second grade, they cannot leave their child's education to the teachers and school. Any parent thinks that it is necessary to spend time and effort to teach and tutor their child from a young age to be effective.

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When it comes to semester exams, the study atmosphere in every family is bustling, urgent, making full use of the short review time. Children ask to go out, to watch TV, but definitely not. I always say: "Mom and I will do our homework, review our lessons carefully so that you can get high scores, after the exam I will let you play freely." But mischievous children always find ways to sneak out of the house, sneak out to play together when their parents are busy doing something. Children only get to play for a short while, then their parents call them to come home to study.

Not only parents but also grandparents are worried when their children are about to take exams. I even teased my neighbor next door as "the model grandmother" because she was so concerned about her granddaughter's homework. My grandmother, wearing glasses, checked the test papers the teacher returned. If I got any questions wrong, she would call me to ask. I would mumble and give her a vague answer and ask her to come back in the afternoon to give her the correct answer. I reviewed my textbooks and notebooks to do the exercises that the teacher had instructed me to do with similar questions to discuss with my grandmother.

Grandma frowned and showed me a stack of her granddaughter's test papers, all with 9s and 9.5s. I burst out laughing: "Grandma, my granddaughter is really good at studying." Grandma shook her head: "If she was good, she should have gotten 10s, but she got all the easy questions wrong..."

In grade 1, grade 2 and even higher in primary school, it is very difficult to get the title of excellent completion. If your child gets 9 or 10 in Math and Vietnamese but does not achieve good completion in Crafts, Music, Fine Arts, and English, he or she will still fail the "Excellent Completion" certificate.

That's why, right before the semester exam, there are still messages from teachers, asking parents to urge their children to re-do their Arts and Crafts homework. That's why parents are impatient, yelling at their children to focus on Math, Vietnamese, and English, while the parents do the Arts and Crafts homework for them to speed up. Is it the child's semester exam or the whole family's? If the child gets a score of 9 or 10, the effort of the parents and grandparents must be great.

I confided to my female colleagues: "Since my child entered first grade, I have never been able to watch a movie, I always have to study with my child." Everyone admits that the children's studies are the biggest concern, entertainment must wait until the children are on summer vacation. Normally, parents are already busy studying with their children, but when their children have semester exams, all parents have to speed up, closely monitor their children to "finish" with the highest score.

I did not achieve the goal of my child getting a perfect score on the semester exam and being an excellent student. But I still diligently reviewed the lessons and outlines with him, reading and re-reading the knowledge in the textbooks. After the exam, I breathed a sigh of relief. I anxiously waited for my child to report his score, and felt both joy and sadness when attending the parent-teacher meeting...

When my child has a semester exam, the whole family is anxious to tutor and review it over and over again until they know it by heart, but they are still worried that my child will forget, make mistakes, or miss questions. When my child is in elementary school, semester exams are the most important thing, no parent dares to be negligent or just remind them, but must study with their child to feel secure./.