Homework is a part of school curriculum which consists of set of tasks about the recent topic. Homework is usually completed on free time of students. In my opinion, homework is mandatory for students’ academic success, because it helps the students to understand school subjects fully and close the gaps.
Firstly, homework helps to get more complicated and expanded knowledge about the subject. It gives more individual freedom to research certain topics related to the subject, enabling the student to learn more, apart from school lessons. For instance, biology student can have a problem related to the topic, because the school lessons are limited in time and not all important information can be revealed during one academic hour. Student can get more knowledge by solving hometasks, which contain uncovered sides of topic, encouraging him to find more information on internet without any time limits. Thus, homework helps students to learn more, it gives the freedom to research undiscovered parts of topic individually.
Secondly, homework allows to close academic gaps. Not every topic can be equally learned. On the process of completing hometasks, students can detect their weaknesses and mistakes towards the topic and practice them more to avoid repeating them. For example, the student can discover that he do not know certain formulas while completing math hometask, finding weaknesses of himself. It allows him to work more on specific mistake prone topic and close the gap step-by-step. It means that the student does not leave weak spots, because they are detected and solved by hometask.Therefore, homework helps to find academic gaps and fill them.
To conclude, homework is necessary for success of students in school curriculum. Hometasks help to expand the knowledge of subject by providing opportunity to individual resarch, also they assist in solving weaknesses of students towards the topics.