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68) Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Classmates are a more 
important influence than parents on a child’s success in school. Use specific reasons 
and examples to support your answer. 
 
(a) When children attend school, they spend most of their time with their classmates. 
Because of this reason many people think that classmates are a more important influence 
than parents on a child’s success in school. I totally agree with this statement in the light of 
my experiences and my other friends’ experiences. In this essay, I will try to figure out 
how classmates are an important influence on a child’s success in school. 
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First of all, at the very beginning of the school years, children meet new friends and they 
get close with some of them either because they get along with them well or they are in the 
same neighborhood. It is very normal for a child to have new friends that she likes and 
have enjoyable time but sometimes these classmates become a very important influence on 
a child’s behavior. This behavior can affect her positively or negatively. 
For example my cousin had had some friends at school. She liked them a lot but I felt 
something wrong as soon as I met them. I talked to my cousin about it but she didn’t listen 
to my advices. Later on she realized that her friends were using drugs and cut her relations 
with them. My cousin and her family had to move to another city because this event 
affected my cousin very much and she suffered some psychological problems. My cousin 
had to give up her school for a year and took her 2 years return to her normal life. 
On the other hand, classmates can influence a child’s success in school in a good way. 
Because, to my way of thinking, meeting new people, getting to know them, is an 
important experience in one’s life. Studying together, helping each other with some 
problems is very useful. For example, I study with my friends for the exams and I think it 
is very helpful. One of my friends can solve a mathematics problem that the others cannot 
solve, so we complete each other. I sometimes don’t feel like studying but my friends 
force me to study and I thank them for that. Because sometimes one needs motivation and 
friends are there at this times. 
Finally, we can say that classmates are an important influence on a child’s success in 
school. The important point is that how they influence a child’s success. And as long as we 
have good friends, they play an important role in our success. 
(b) One of the most important things in our lives is a learning process - school, college, 
and university. There are many problems that appear, and only you must make a right 
decision. But in this process it is important to have friends that can help you. In this essay I 
will argue that classmates are a more important influence than parents on a child's success 
in school.
First of all, to have more influence means to know every detail in one's problem. For 
example, when you have such problem as the relationship between you and another 
student or teacher, only a well-informed person can advise you. In my view, in this 
situation your classmates are more close to you than your parents. Your classmates can 
understand you because they are in your age, also. 
In the other hand, classmate’s influence means a contest between the students. It is 
known that our life is a competition in which each of us is a competitor. In my opinion, 
when I see that my classmate is better than I in one subject, it means that I need to work on 
my knowledge in it. It depends on me.