赵逸君，苏州国际预科学校2014届IFY学生，1A3A*的优异成绩被英国谢菲尔德大学建筑设计专业录取。

　　个人名言： Never underestimate yourself 永远不要低估自己

　　大多数人其实比他们想象中的厉害，但问题是随着人们的长大，就对自己越发怀疑。大多数人想要克服这种怀疑，但当他们面临挑战的是否却因为恐惧而停滞不前。很多人想打败恐惧，但他们总是低估自己增强内心世界的能力。加油吧！朋友们！如果你们想在你们的所有科目中得到A* 或者A 的好成绩，那就阅读，思考，并且矢志不渝的跟随我所说的（永远不要低估自己)去做，因为我确信，这样，你们的未来会有重大的突破提高！

Dear readers, in this article, you can see the inner words of a student who once failed in the Chinese college entrance examination but succeed in the International foundation year, and in order to help more students to be successful, I want to demonstrate the personal thinking cultivated during this year, which is definitely advantageous for our study in following paragraphs.

　　亲爱的读者，在这篇文章里，你能感受到一个学生（我）的心声，他高考失利，但是预科却取得了有益的成绩。为了帮助更多的人取得成功，我决定分享下这一年里所培养的个人思维方式。

To begin with, the motto of my dream school, which is “To discover and understand the causes of things” is and always has been the motivation which has driven me in my learning and has been a contributing factor in achieving academic success. More specifically, I strongly consider that it is a requisite to learn from a critical and original perspective, or otherwise, the acquired knowledge is superficial. Let me illustrate what I mean by this by giving you an example. While conducting experiments for Physics, I have paid attention to certain aspects that my peers deemed unworthy of their time, such as analyzing the errors during these experiments and offering suggestions to reduce experiment limitations. Consequently, our tutor highly praised me because I was the only one who acquired full mark in the report named “simple harmonic motion”. Moreover, the report was used as a model and I attribute this honor to the custom of critical thinking, which many people lack.

　　首先，我的理想学校的校训“发现并理解事物的本因”一直以来鞭策着我，并且是使我取得成功的一大因素。更具体的说，我很认可从个人批判的角度看问题，不然的话，所学的知识是赋予表面的。有个例子是，当做物理实验的时候，我花注意力放在一些常被同学认为无用的地方，比如分析并提出减少实验误差的方法。因此，我的简谐运动的论文得到了满分，并且我的导师高度赞扬我，而这篇论文更是被老师看做一个模板，我把它归因为我的辩证思考习惯，然而很多人却缺失这个。

In addition, bravery and courage have also been applied to my study. Personally, these two words have a strong nexus with each other, where the former expresses the bravery to discover the original weakness, and the latter expresses the courage to take concrete actions to break the thinking durance. A telling example of my bravery and courage can be seen in my presentation assessment where I achieved a grade that I had never achieved before. Before the presentation, pronunciation part was my weakest part which impeded me from achieving an A in speaking exams. To remedy this weakness I sought several avenues such as asking tutors and classmates for help, comparing my recorded voice with the voice of native speakers, and carefully observing the differences of mouth movements between Chinese and native speakers when speaking English. Although the time was limited, I still conducted an incredible and bold decision, namely, to relearn the phonetic symbols. Ultimately, hard work paid off, and I achieved a grade as the highest score in the whole school. This valuable spirit has been employed in all the courses I study, and I got 3A*’s in professional classes and an A in EAP. This serves to illustrate the importance of bravery and courage, which have been applied in my academic endeavors.

　　此外，勇气与胆量也在我的学习中被运用到。 我个人认为，前者代表了发现问题根源的勇气，而后者代表了采取行动打破思维困境的胆量，这两者密不可分。我曾把这品质用于我此前的演讲考试，那次，我得到了前所未有的成绩。然而在演讲前，我的糟糕发音使我在考试中口语拿不到A，为了弥补这个缺陷，我采用了多种方法，包括向导师同学寻求帮助，把自己声音录下来与说英语国家的人比较，以及仔细观察中国人和外国人说英语事的口型间差异。尽管时间有限，我还是采取了让人觉得不可思议的举动！那就是，重学音标。后来，功夫不负有心人，我得到了全校最高分。而这样的勇气与胆量被用到了我学的其他科目中，我也因此获得了专业课全A*, EAP 等第A 的好成绩。 我想，以上这些足以证明我所说的学习中运用勇气和胆量的重要性了吧。

To recapitulate, I would like to utilize and express my motto that we should never underestimate ourselves. Personally, I could never believe getting all “A”s in the four aspects of the EAP study (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) before I started learning this program. However, after cultivating all the mentioned thoughts in previous paragraphs encouraged via all my tutors, I get an incredible results and go to my dream school eventually. More precisely, every time when I communicated several strange or even crazy original thinking with my tutors, they invariably encouraged me to go on thinking and researching, which specifically strengthen my confidence to make myself perfect. Consequently, I really appreciate the tutors in the Kaplan Suzhou center, as they render me believe that “Everything is possible!”.

　　作为总结，我想用我的个人名言“永远不要低估自己”作为收尾。 要是换在进入预科的一年多前，我绝不可能相信，我的英语听说读写都会得到A等级。然而，经过上述思维模式的熏陶以及老师的鼓励，我收获了无比的成效，并最终步入了理想学校。我发自内心的感谢老师的鼓励，因为每当和他们交流我一些奇怪甚至疯狂的想法时，他们总是鼓励我想下去，并做调查研究，这尤为增加了我完善自己的自信。最后，我十分感谢楷博苏州中心的所有老师，因为他们让我相信，一切皆有可能！