Exam is an educational assessment to test the test taker’s knowledge and skills. While self reward is an activity of giving ourselves something because of reaching or achieving something. There are many forms of self reward, such as going travelling around the world, watching movies, buying something, etc. Self reward has its own advantages and disadvantages. We can see how important it is based on those advantages and disadvantages.

First thing first, let's talk about its advantages. So far, I have collected three advantages from self rewards. The first one is, self reward can motivate us to maintain our enthusiasm for our exam. It can affect our self because by doing self reward, it can provide us with some “dopamine” and make us feel happy. And because of the happiness we got, we can study harder to get better scores on our exam. The second advantage is that self reward is one of a form to express our gratitude because we fought hard enough on our exam. No matter what are the results are, whether it is bad or good, we must show our gratitude to our hard work. We all feel tired on our exam weeks, and we must show our gratitude because we finally get through those weeks, one of the form is by doing self reward. And the last thing is, people doing self reward to celebrate their achievement. We must treat ourselves kindly and nicely. By doing self reward, we can respect ourselves much better, so it can maintain our mental health to stay healthy. By keeping our mental health to stay healthy, we can boost our self confidence and do better on the next exam.

Now, let's talk about the disadvantages of self rewards. By doing self reward, we can be addicted to it if we do it too often. We only think about the prizes we will get in the end, so we cannot maximize ourselves and our potential to do the exam, or in other words we will be distracted by the prizes if we do self reward too often. And by doing self reward, we can weaken our mental state too. Just like we are addicted to it, we will feel lazy and we won’t study for our exam if there are no prizes in the end. Self-reward has also lots of negative forms that can be a disadvantage if we express self reward in these ways : drinking alcohol, helding a party from night until dawn, spending too much time and money, etc. If we drink alcohol and hold a party as a form of self reward, it can be a disadvantage for us because those activities can put our body in the worst condition. If we drink too much alcohol, we can be drunk, followed by several heart diseases, high blood pressure and lots of digestive problems. If we hold a party from night until dawn, our body will be lacking sleep and we can’t rest ourselves maximally. And if we spend too much time and money, it will be an act of wastefulness and it is a negative action.

In conclusion, self reward after an exam is very important for us because it can give us a lot of positive impacts, rather than negative. We can make ourselves more diligent in the future, maintain our mental health to stay healthy, and we can also maximize ourselves in the future. Although there are several disadvantages, such as depending on the prizes and if we are too depending on it, we can’t maximise ourselves on the exam and also there are many forms of self rewards. But we can actually control those thing by not doing self reward too often and also doing self rewards in positive ways such as exercising, playing with friends, watching movies, etc.