Importance of Setting Goals for Students

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Goals are the general desire of the student, which student is looking to achieve. This report
highlights the importance of setting Goal for the student. After that report highlights different
type of long term and short term goal of the students. After that the report highlights the
different ways through which student is able to memorize learning easily in the University.
MAIN BODY
Goals is an idea or desire that a person used to accomplish in the finite period of deadline
in an organization. Goals which are set to accomplish the shorter goal in an organization are
known as a short term goals. Whereas the goal which are set for longer period is known as long
term goal of students (Gardner and et.al., 2019.).
Importance of setting Goals
Setting goal in the university used to bring variety of the benefits for the student such as
it provide direction to the student about the different activity which they have to perform in the
University. As goal used to provide the direction in which student has to target the different
efforts in an organization. Setting goal also help organization in bringing and making more
clarity in decision-making of a student. As with the help of the goal setting student are more
clear about what is good for them and what are different future objective of a student in the
University. Also, Goal setting used to provide a good sort of motivation to the student in the
University to have a good learning to achieve the goal in the prescribed time they are looking to
achieve the same. Goal Setting also help student in University in planning different action plan
efficiently in the University, so that student in the University can achieve the different goal very
efficiently (Vroland‐Nordstrand and et.al., 2016.).
Short Term and Long Term Goals
There are many short and long term goal which are set by the student in the University.
Generally, goals which are set for a specific semester or exam in the University are known as a
short term goal. Such as has to improve grades in a specific subject by the end of semester
(Locke and Latham, 2019.). Also, improving different skill in the specific period is the example
of the short term goal for an organization. It has been also seen that student in the University
also used to make different short term goal to build relationship with the tutor or mentor in an
organization. Generally short term goal of all the student are to develop different skill and
knowledge in the University so that it can help them in carrying out different day to day
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