# 6 Refeliction

Here in the college there is a class called 175 English Course, this course is very useful for students in the future when they will study lots of materials. In this course the students will improve in their reading, writing and listening skills. I am going to write what I learnt from this class and how I improved in it.

In the last semester I was afraid that I might drop in the next semester, but I did my best and passed in the first semester and said that I will also pass in the next one with good grades. First , in reading I didn’t used to finish it very fast because I use to read the whole reading and answer the question, but thanks to this course I learned now I new skill which is skim and scan which it help me very much in this course. Second is my writing skills, I really improved my writing from the last semester, right now all the grades that I get for my writing are to 5.7 to 6.0 but I hope in the future I will improve even more. Finally is my listening, unfortunately I didn’t improve very much because I have big problem in spelling, but that doesn’t mean that I should give up and I will try to do my best to improve my spelling.

In conclusion, I believe that the ENG N175 courses are very useful for students that will help them to improve their English. 

# 2 Examinations are unfair ( argument)

      All colleges, universities and schools are using exams to grade students and to know what they are doing. Some people think that exams are not a fair way of assessment and should not be used at HCT colleges. Also, some people think it is a good to use exams in colleges. I will discuss both sides

First, I am going to mention the positive side of using exams. The main point is to know the level of students. For example, when doing exams for students they will know how they improved in their courses and what mistakes they got so that they do their best next time. Another point is to let students review their materials. Some students while in class they might forget what they learnt so to make what they learn stick in their heads the college may use exams to make students restudy their materials. Next, another point is to keep students awake during the class. Some student don’t care to listen to their teachers so they should remind them that they have an exam so that they will be awake in class and listen to whatever the teacher is going to tell them.

Also, there are some negative points that people support. The first point is that there is too much materials to study. Some exams cover about five or six subjects that the students should study and it will be too much for them. Another point is the lack of time. Some students are slow when they are doing their exams that they might take them about one hour and half to finish so they need to make the time of the exam at least three hours. The third point is that exams make students nervous. All students before they get to their exams they are a little bit nervous so the teacher should help them and encourage them that the exam is easy.

In conclusion, I think I don’t agree that exams are unfair and should be canceled because how should the students know about their progress or how are they doing in college without doing exams?

# 2 Visitors to China ( line graph)

     This line graph shows the number of the German and French visitors coming to China from 1998 to 2007. Overall, the numbers of both countries are very similar.

First, the number of German visitors rose up from 1998 to 2000. There was sharp growth of the number of visitors from 2000 to 2001 and the numbers remain steady till 2002. In 2002 the number on German visitors started to decrease until stopping in 2005. The number again started to increase from 2005 to 2006 and stayed the same in 2007.

As for the French visitors, from 1998 to 1999 they had a small decrease in number and the number started to increase after a year from the last year. In 2000 the number of French visitors had a sharp increase till 2001, but in the next year the number also had a sharp decrease and it continued to decrease and stop in 2005. Finally, the number of visitors increased in a small amount from 2005 to 2006 and they also decreased from 2006 to 2007.

In conclusion, I think that some countries might have the same number of visitors visiting other countries, but we might not know what will happen to these numbers in the future.