Setting SMART Goals for Academic Success

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Introduction
Goals are essential in our day to day life to give direction, remain focused, and motivation.
Goals are necessary for both personal life and work performance, and they give provide a target
to achieve. When setting goals, you should be SMART that is, set specific goals, your goals
should also be measurable (you are able to measure the progress), achievable (should be possible
to achieve), realistic (goals should be relevant and within your reach) and timely (should set a
time limit of achieving this goals). Sometimes people set goals that fail because they have no
direction; SMART goals gives you a path towards the success of your objectives. Students
should also have goals to succeed academically. This paper provides some examples of goals I
have set for the semester (Grise-Owens, Miller, Escobar-Ratliff & George, 2018).
1. Improving overall performance.
I have a goal to improve my grade to attain first class honors by the end of the course. This
goal fits in the SMART method because it is specific. I want to improve my grades, which is
very clear and is not contradictory in any way. It is also measurable in that I can evaluate the
progress in terms of points attained, and I will be able to know how much effort I should put in
to achieve my desired goal. It is achievable because I believe I have the potential to perform
better and improve my grades. It is also a realistic goal as it is relevant to me as a student and
finally it is timely as every semester I expect to record an improvement till I finish the course
where the goal will have been achieved (Raghunath, Anker & Nortcliffe, 2018).
2. Attend 90 percent of the classes
The other goal I have is to attend almost all my classes, and it is specific in that it's the
classes and not any different session I want to visit. It is a measurable goal because I can count