FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS

FINDINGS

Table 1. Sources of Pressure among Students

Reasons Transferees Old students Total

School 8 9 17
Home 1 0 1
Friends 0 0 0
Others(Parents, 1 1 2
Society)

This data shows that the most common sources of pressure among students are coming

from school. There are 8 respondents from transferee students and one of them stated that, “My

source of pressure is coming from school due to adjustments with the new environment and also

to my new classmates” and 9 respondents from old students and one of the respondent stated that,

“My source of pressure is school due to a lot of requirements and quizzes.” with a total of 17

respondents in all who stated that school is their highest sources of pressure. The second source of

pressure for the students are parents with 1 respondent from old students who stated that, “My

parents always told me that I have to do better than everyone and I should get a higher grades

every quarter which pressures me a lot.” and 1 respondent from transferees that society is her

sources of pressure and stated that, “Society is my source of pressure due to judgmental people.”

And lastly, the least sources of pressure is home with 1 respondent who stated that, “My source of

pressure is coming from home due to family problems and such”.

Table 2. Factors that Pressures the Students

Reasons Transferees Old students Total

Academic pressure 7 6 13
Parental pressure 1 1 2
Workloads 2 3 5

This data shows that the common factors that pressures the students is academic pressure.

There are 7 respondents from transferee students and one of them stated that, “I get pressured

much in academic because as I am a transferee student, I have to compete with time, people, and

performance.” And there are also 6 respondents from old students and one of them stated that,

“Academic pressure is the factor that pressures me most because of high expectations from other

people.” The second common factors that pressures the students most are workloads with a total

of 5 respondents. There are 2 respondents from transferee students and says, “Workloads is the

common factors that pressures me most due to a lot of requirements and things to do to meet the

given deadlines.” And 3 respondents from old students and says just the same as the above

statements. (Statement from the transferee students). And lastly, the parental pressure which has 2

respondents and says, “Parental pressure is the most common factor that pressures me because

my parents wanted me to perform very well in class and they wanted me to get higher grades in

every quarter.”

Table 3. Ratings of the Pressure Felt by the Students in RSHS-IX

Ratings Transferees Old students Total

1 (Low) 0 0 0
2 0 0 0
3 (Moderate) 3 5 8
4 2 2 4
5 (High) 5 3 8
 This data shows the ratings of students about the pressure they felt in this institution as 1

as the lowest and 5 as the highest. There are 8 respondents who gives 5 in the ratings which means

they felt very pressured in this institution. Some transferee students says that, “I gave 5 because I

am much pressured in this institution due to a lot of requirements, changing of schedules, and few

people who I can approach to help me.” And also some old students says that, “I gave 5 because

the pressure I felt before was multiplied and it’s kind of hard for me hehehe.” There are also 8

respondents who gave a rating of 3 and they stated that, “I gave 3 because I know already how to

deal with pressure even though there are a lot of things that I need to do.” “I gave 3 because I am

already used to feel pressured in this institution and the best thing I can do for myself is to deal

and handle pressure to become a better person”. And lastly, there are 4 respondents who gave a

rating of 4 and they stated that, “I gave 4 because I am pressured due to requirements but I do

something to deal with it by doing my work ahead of time.”

Table 4. How Students Defined Pressure and What Advices that the Old students can give to the

Transferee Students in dealing and Coping with Pressure

Interview Questions Subcategories Answers

As a student, how do you Contributed in Good “It is an essential factor in

define pressure? Manner growing up and maturing.”

Contributed in Bad Manner “It is an emotional factors

that causes mental and

physical tension.”
Advices you can give to the Deal with the Challenges “Don’t give up in every

transferee students in dealing challenges and just do your

and coping with pressure? best.”

Be responsible enough “Do your work ahead of

time and know your

responsibilities.”

Don’t be afraid to seek help “No man is an island so ask

from others help from others.”

Think positive “Everything is possible just

think you can do it.”

Study more and Good time “Manage your time wisely

management and give a lot of time for

studying and a little for

entertainments.”
 CONCLUSIONS

Based on the findings, a theory on the pressure felt by old and transferee students of Regional

Science High School – IX Senior High School was drawn:

Due to different sources and factors of pressures the old and transferee students have, it is

safe to say that the old and transferee students have different amounts of pressure felt depending

on the situations. Sources of pressures from where the students get their pressures has a huge

impact on the pressures they felt as well as the factors that pressures them which pushes them to

go beyond their capacity and stressing themselves out. Hence, students who have the same sources

of pressure and has the same factors that pressures them experience the same amount of pressure.

RECOMMENDATIONS

The following recommendations are offered based on the findings and conclusions of the study:

The amount of time for observation should be extended in order to get a more accurate

picture of the situations in each school.

Do a more concise and comprehensive interviews and survey questions to improve the data

triangulation.

Add more numbers of respondents to have an accurate data for the study.

Add more specific questions to collect a more accurate and precise data for the

improvements of the study.