Study Skills for Higher Education

Study Skills for Higher
Education

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
1) Discuss why it is important to set goals. Identify some important short-term and long-term
goals for university students........................................................................................................3
2) Evaluate some methods students can use to improve how much they remember new
information..................................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Study skills and academic skills are the approaches and strategies that helps the students to
learn various concepts. Such skills enable a student in getting better grades and marks (Cottrell,
2017). They are the array of skills with which various information can be gained by the
individual, retaining the information that they have and gathered through various lectures and
assignments undertaken. With the help of such skills the short term and long-term academic
goals can easily be accomplished. The achieving of short-term goals enables the student to be in
a position that can help in accomplishing long-term goals. Such academic goals of the students
enable them to determine what they have to achieve and the steps that they have to take for this.
In this report the importance of setting of goals and ways of improving the learning are
discussed.
Main Body
1) Discuss why it is important to set goals. Identify some important short-term and long-term
goals for university students
Goals are important for an individual as they provide the direction and the purpose to the
students. Students in the higher studies consider such goals as roadmap that can help them in
being successful. Formation of such is important for the students as with this they can:
 Improved focus: It improves their focus as with this they get to know about what they
have to achieve. It is very easy to say that I want to get better marks but goals enable
them to focus upon various steps that can take them to success (Fisher, Reynolds and
Sheehan, 2016).
 Increased motivation: It increases their level of motivation as with this they can
determine the opportunities that they can avail. Also, it makes the student committed
towards their aims.
 Higher quality education experience: When the students have a roadmap, it facilitates
them in improving the quality of the education that they want to achieve as with this the
student can gather more skills and information. This adds up value to their level of
understanding that contributes in keeping them on track.
Some of the short-term goals for a university student includes:
 Completion of the assignments on time that has been allocated to them.