Academic Skills and Studying with Confidence - Challenges and Strategies

This article discusses the necessary skills for academic success, including reflection, communication, debating, presentation, time management, planning, and revision. It also explores common challenges faced by students, such as lack of motivation, distraction, and time management, and provides strategies for overcoming them. The article includes references to relevant books and journals.

Academic Skills and
Studying with Confidence
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Table of Contents
Academic Skills and Studying with Confidence.............................................................................1
Portfolio contribution Two: ............................................................................................................3
What sort of skills do I need? ................................................................................................3
Portfolio contribution Three: ........................................................................................................4
What are the challenges of studying and how will you overcome them?..............................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
Books and Journals.................................................................................................................6
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Portfolio contribution Two:
What sort of skills do I need?
Reflection
Reflection is the ability that helps an individual to analyse and depict its own experience
of particular situation. It is the valuable skill through which learners and professionals gain self-
awareness that help in analysing the areas of improvement (Stavroulia & Lanitis, 2019). I can use
this skill in future to identify my strengths and weaknesses and also through this I can improve
my areas that are identified as weak.
Communication skills
In a class as a student I communicate effectively with the other members due to my strong
communication skills. The class has made me learn written communication skills which are
highly important in order to possess both effective written and verbal communication skills. In
the class while writing my essay for the enrolment of university course I applied my currently
learned written communication skills which gave me confidence as I was able to draft very
precise, informative, grammatically correct and good vocabulary in my essay that has huge
potential to get selected for my university course interview.
Debating (online and classroom)
The debating skills are the abilities or the style in which an individual communicate its
argument in front of others in order to prove own side of argument right. The debating can be
either in classroom or online where both the parties put their argument in front of others either in
favour or in against of the topic (Karasheva et al., 2021).
Presentation skills
I am just beginner towards such experience as I have never before prepared or presented a
presentation. Before giving presentation I was feeling highly nervous and afraid to present my
presentation in front of large group. The was highly worried about my gestures while presenting
my presentation in front of others. But the thing which I was most confident about was my
creativity and information provided in the digital presentation. But I realized that my
presentation went very well and was up to the mark. I was able to do eye contact with the
audience. Also audience seemed engaging.
Time management
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For the effective utilization of time I must develop a time schedule with all of my task with
appropriate time constraints. In order to divide my time for different tasks, my home, work and
other commitments in best way I should develop a time table or action plan that is time based. As
a time management strategy I will set prioritizes, maintain daily routine and most importantly the
time table for my important task I order to have effective management.
Planning
For the attainment of my deadlines I must manage the deadlines for which I will evaluate
the what’s required, collect right resources, brainstorm the problems, plan in detail on paper. For
the better planning in future I must learn planning, organising, management, problem solving and
critical thinking skills (Álvarez-Huerta et al., 2021). Yes, I have always stick to my plan. I will
very confident and relaxed after planning my time accurately as this make me feel free from
burden of missing deadlines.
Revision strategies
For the revision I must use significant strategies that would help me revise all my learnt
skills back. For this I will be creating the mind map that will outline the key points that I need to
rhyme at the time of revision.
Portfolio contribution Three:
What are the challenges of studying and how will you overcome them?
Challenges of studying
 Lower experience of motivation
 Excess of distraction
 Difficulty in concentration
 Lack of right resources
 Struggle with time management and planning
What strategies will you use to help you to overcome these challenges?
In order to overcome from the above mentioned challenges of the studying I will firstly
mediate in order to avoid distraction and also to improve my concentration power to study
effectively. I will set motivational factors such as if I will complete my one learning of one
subject I will watch half hour TV etc. Also to reduce the struggle of time man agent and planning
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I will develop my study time table. I will go to library or I will do group studies in order to stay
motivated and also to have right amount of resources to study.
What support do you think is available?
For overcoming the challenges of studying I will have support of my tutors of school.
They will encourage me to study hard in order to gain best grades (Aliu & Aigbavboa, 2021).
Also through assignments and test I will gain support to study effectively.
How will you manage your time and ensure you stay on track?
To manage my time and to make sure I stay on track I will develop action plan that will
keep me attentive and aware what task I need to perform and in how much time. Also I will
develop of check list to tick the task that I have achieved and also to track my progress (Moro et
al., 2021).
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Aliu, J., & Aigbavboa, C. (2021). Key generic skills for employability of built environment
graduates. International Journal of Construction Management, 1-19.
Álvarez-Huerta, P et al., (2021). Student engagement and creative confidence beliefs in higher
education. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 40, 100821.
Karasheva, Z et al., (2021). Preparation of future specialists for the formation of educational
communication skills for elementary school children. World Journal on Educational
Technology: Current Issues, 13(3), 467-484.
Moro, C et al., (2021). Virtual and augmented reality enhancements to medical and science
student physiology and anatomy test performance: A systematic review and meta‐
analysis. Anatomical sciences education, 14(3), 368-376.
Stavroulia, K. E., & Lanitis, A. (2019). Enhancing reflection and empathy skills via using a
virtual reality based learning framework. International Journal of Emerging
Technologies in Learning.
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