It is my personal experience of telling a lie. It has been years since this incident took place. Nevertheless, it firmly remained in my memory as clearly as if it was just yesterday. Perhaps I will never be capable of eliminating it from my memory because it was extremely impressive and have a profound influence on my life ever since. Moreover, it reveals to me that honesty is much more important than test result.
It was a gloomy summer afternoon. In a Chinese class, our teacher was teaching us Chinese poem. Everything seemed quite usual and nature. Time elapsed unconsciously and everyone thought that this fade and boring lesson would just ended in such bland atmosphere, me included. However, just when there was only ten minutes left, the teacher brought out a pile of test papers. Suddenly, that boring and bland atmosphere disappeared; instead, the whole classroom became silent and even strained. “These are our last examination’s results. I will distribute them to you to keep you informed of your own grades. ” Almost simultaneously, I felt my heart was clutched tightly by uncertainty and strain. “What is the mark of my paper”, I asked myself with a contradictory attention. On the one hand, I was desperate for my paper because I intended to be aware of my result; on the other hand, I felt reluctant to get my paper because I would felt very disappointed if I got an unsatisfied mark. Finally, I got my paper. Staring at it, I was shocked by my poor mark. How could I get such a poor mark? Hoping to find some causes, I skimmed my paper. To my surprise, I found I forgot to answer one of the questions. In order to gain high marks, I threw everything out of my mind. I quickly answered the question and submitted it to my teacher, telling her that she forgot to give me the points for this question. I think at that time I was totally driven mad by marks. In order to get high mark, I totally lost my mind. I even told a lie to my teacher. Luckily, I did not succeed in cheating. I was seen through by my teacher……
However, instead of chastising me, my teacher told me some sincere and profound words which really benefit me a lot. Up till now, I still remember one of my teacher’s sentences: honesty is much more important than test result.
This is my own experience of telling a lie. “Honesty is never less important that test results.” Actually, I was deeply influenced by my teacher’s words. Moreover, I will bear it in mind for ever because it tells me something that will benefit me for the rest of my life.
It was a gloomy summer afternoon. In a Chinese class, our teacher was teaching us Chinese poem. Everything seemed quite usual and nature. Time elapsed unconsciously and everyone thought that this fade and boring lesson would just ended in such bland atmosphere, me included. However, just when there was only ten minutes left, the teacher brought out a pile of test papers. Suddenly, that boring and bland atmosphere disappeared; instead, the whole classroom became silent and even strained. “These are our last examination’s results. I will distribute them to you to keep you informed of your own grades. ” Almost simultaneously, I felt my heart was clutched tightly by uncertainty and strain. “What is the mark of my paper”, I asked myself with a contradictory attention. On the one hand, I was desperate for my paper because I intended to be aware of my result; on the other hand, I felt reluctant to get my paper because I would felt very disappointed if I got an unsatisfied mark. Finally, I got my paper. Staring at it, I was shocked by my poor mark. How could I get such a poor mark? Hoping to find some causes, I skimmed my paper. To my surprise, I found I forgot to answer one of the questions. In order to gain high marks, I threw everything out of my mind. I quickly answered the question and submitted it to my teacher, telling her that she forgot to give me the points for this question. I think at that time I was totally driven mad by marks. In order to get high mark, I totally lost my mind. I even told a lie to my teacher. Luckily, I did not succeed in cheating. I was seen through by my teacher……
However, instead of chastising me, my teacher told me some sincere and profound words which really benefit me a lot. Up till now, I still remember one of my teacher’s sentences: honesty is much more important than test result.
This is my own experience of telling a lie. “Honesty is never less important that test results.” Actually, I was deeply influenced by my teacher’s words. Moreover, I will bear it in mind for ever because it tells me something that will benefit me for the rest of my life.
5 comments:
To tell the truth, I was ever driven by marks madly for a period of time. Sometimes, I also had the same mind like cheating. However, I did not do such thing because of the constrain of princle. In addition, I like ur style of writing.
Exar
i remember when i was in high scdool working very hard in my physic. actually, sometimes i feel desperate when i got my marks because i worked harder than others but still the marks were low. I really want to cheat, but at last i calmed down myself and after a long time of persistance, my physics is very good in my class. some time we lost honest because we want to succeed.
In China, marks mean everything of a student, therefore, we might do whatever we can do to get a high mark. Sometimes, we will tell a lie. However, telling a lie means that u have to tell more lies to cover the first lie. That's really bad and not worthy. I like ur honesty.
Marks, or grades, seem to drive students mad in many countries. This story illustrates that well, Vincent. Thank you for your honesty!
Thank you all for your appreciation of my essay. Honesty is really something that all of us should hold on to.Really!!
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