A Student's Guide to Being Competent and Curious

A student's guide to
being Competent and
Curious

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
The process of encouraging then students for the purpose of embracing their curiosity is
considered as a significant part of the education. Competencies of a students includes skills and
knowledge as well as combination of attitudes that are developed and applied by students to
learn in a successful way (Canché, 2018). This report includes a description on core study skills
which have founds to be easy and difficult during semester. Moreover, this report will also cover
explanation on the significance of such core skills and will further include different approaches
which assist in studying in a different way.
MAIN BODY
Description of core study skills which have found easy or difficult during semester along with
explanation regarding why these are found difficult or easy
Effective study skills will help the students of the university in enhancing the level of
their confidence, competence as well as self-esteem. This reduces their stress about different
tests and deadlines of the assessment (Hart and et.al., 2021). Within the given module, the study
skills that were difficult for me during the semester in university includes time management and
stress management skills. At the time of examinations within the university, I became more
stressed and short-tempered as I was unable to complete my course before the examinations.
This has given me a lot of stress and because of which I was not able to concentrate on my study
and examinations in effective manner. By not having stress management skills, I also got
demotivated because of not completing the course for the semesters of the university.
I have also found time management skills to be difficult during the semester. In context to
such kind of study skill, it was very difficult to manage daily routine activities along with the
study in an appropriate defined period (Kunicina and et.al., 2019). I was not able to manage my
time in all the subjects of the university semester and because of which I also not scored good
grades within the examinations that were held in the university. As my time management skills
were not so effective, I was lacking behind in attempting all the questions in my semesters which
has also affected my report card and records within university.
Due to the lack of time management skills, I was not able to clear my concepts of the
different subjects also in my study. University systems include diploma, workshops, career fairs,
specialisation within the courses that would help me in developing such kind of study skills for