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「旧帝・国立大学医学部」受験対策講座（１５）

People learn from their failures.  Seldom do they learn anything from success.   (Harold Geneen)

 　模試で良い結果が出たときのことを思い出してほしい。思わず誰かに自慢したくなりませんでしたか？良い結果が出たのだから、それまでの勉強方法が正しかったと判断するのも論理的。いわゆる「成功体験」となります。

　しかし、自分の志望校のボーダーよりはるか下。あるいは、ボーダーラインぎりぎりという結果が出たらどうでしょう。それまで以上に勉強時間を増やし、解く問題数ノルマを増やし、より集中して勉強できる場所や時間帯を考える。とにかく、改良点を考え続け実行に移すでしょう？

　旧帝や国立大学医学部に合格するような生徒は“天才”扱いをされることが多いが、そういう優秀な生徒を指導させてもらった経験から言えることは

「彼らは誰にも見られずに多くの失敗を重ねている」

　ということ。

　I want you to remember the time when you got a good result in a mock exam. Didn't you feel like bragging to someone? Since you got a good result, it is logical to decide that the way you had studied up to that point was correct. It is a so-called "success experience.



　However, what if you get a result that is far below the borderline of the school you want to enter, or just on the edge of the borderline? You may have to increase your study time more than before, increase the quota of problems you have to solve, and think about where and when you can study more intensively. In any case, you would keep thinking of improvements and put them into action, wouldn't you?



　Students who pass the entrance exams to the medical schools of the former imperial or national universities are often regarded as "geniuses," but I can tell you from my experience in teaching such excellent students that

"They make a lot of mistakes without anyone seeing them.”

　I have had the experience of teaching such excellent students.