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The challenges faced by young students today hinders their progress in education, but they can be overcome with determination and concentration.

Firstly, many students face the challenge of academic stress. Every student usually finds his homework list fully filled, his schedule overwhelmed with test dates. As each day passes by, more worksheets and workboots pile up on one's desk, while deadlines to the assignments draw closer and closer. Students of the present world, being born in an era where competition and the desire to do is prominent everywhere, are keen not to only surpass their peers in terms of studies but to also be at the top of their respective level. Therefore, success is the only way and failure is not an option for them. However, should they experience the latter, some students contemplate suicide. Although they require a helping hand from someone they can trust,no one may be there for them to console and to provide a shoulder to lean on, leading to deranged students becoming famous in the newspaper with a headline that goes ' Another Student Bites The Dust '. In 2007, the Straits Times newspaper carried out a research and found that 80% of teen suicidal cases are due to unsatisfactory results, or in other words, the stress to do well. Certain students may be pressurised by unreasonable parents who set unreasonably high expectations for their children, and when the child does not perform up to standard, they are punished severely. Therefore, a large pile of homework, a lineup of tests and overdemanding parents may actually destroy a student's future.

Secondly, students face the challenge of peer pressure. In school, friends play a huge part in a student's life. Friends are pillars of support for one another, people whom one can joke and hang out with and a great influence to one's moral development. However, there are also so-called friends who taunt the student into doing harmful things to themselves like smoking or taking drugs with the delusion that these actions will make one ' cool '. Due to the desire to have 'cool' friends, or just the sheer curiosity of the student, he may fall into these disastrous traps and ruin his schooling life. Testimonies of students who have been caught for smoking in interviews from the Boys' Home in 2004 by the Straits Times have shown that the root of smoking leads back to the influence of friends. Thus, the presence of negative peer pressure and the temptations that follow it distract the young student.

Lastly, young students face the challenge of boy-girl relationships. Young students are growing up and going through a phase of life commonly known as puberty. In a scientific manner, a student's sex hormones are the most active during this period of their lives, causing them to suddenly develop a strong attraction to the opposite sex. Therefore, boy-girl relationships between the young and immature students may form. Not only will they be distracted from their priority, their schoolwork, but also have relationship problems with their family. Due to the hours spent on the phone and the obvious decline of school results, parents may find out about the relationship and express disapproval to the child, leading to fights and quarrels between parents and child. Some students, though have considered the idea of breaking up to focus on their schoolwork, are reluctant to let go of the relationship. Thus, the main reason for this problem, coupled with puberty, is the distorted relationship of student boy-girl relationships. This will cause the young students to indulge their time with their partner instead of using the vital time to revise schoolwork and affect their studies.

In conclusion, the obstacles met by teenage students are vast and widespread, tempting and pulling young students' attention away from their studies. The face pace of schoolwork, coupled with the influence of friends and young love affairs demand the strongest of mental resistance from a young student. Adding on, experienced advice from trusted ones allows the student to regain his determination in the pursuit of his students, and at the same time allows him to speak his mind freely to someone he knows he can depend on. Education also determines one's job and wealth in the future. Therefore, by adopting a postive and mature mindset, young students will eventually come to realise that rewards awaits those who work hard.