Essay #144 "Students’ Academic Success" 10.06.18 With raising of the importance of education, a concern about the students’ educational performance have emerged, especially in high-school. People try to identify the factors which effect it and find methods to improve the overall situation with education. I will try to list some of these factors below and explain how they important for high-school education. Firstly, one of the most influential aspect is a teaching approach and often personality of a teacher itself. As most of knowledge students get from a teacher it is very important that tutors and schools have an efficient curriculum which will provide pupils will all needed information and apply modern pedagogical techniques. Also the persona of a teacher itself plays a very important role in this process, and can greatly improve, or sometimes decrease, quality of education. Secondly, when purpose of education is clearly understood by students it creates a certain aim for them. This has a highly positive effect on their performance as they learn not for sake of learning, but rather for some concrete purpose, which cannot be achieved without putting efforts. Thus, establishing a target as early as possible affects greatly an educational process and create a set up for a further success. And lastly, the most obvious one, it is students’ own hard work, without it effective education cannot be reached. So, even if school has a great tutors and a teaching base if students do not commit their own efforts in it the positive outcome is very unlikely. So, steps which were taken by students for achieving their aims is one of the essential elements of successful education, and positively can overshadow previous ones. To conclude, high-school is a quite important period in life of every person as it can open great opportunities for them. There are many factors which affect education and can make it either highly efficient or turn it into a wasting of time. By improving and paying attention to these elements it is possible to build an extremely efficient educational curriculum which will help to achieve great success and create a strong base for future.