Study Skills for Higher Education

This document discusses the importance of study skills in higher education and how they can enhance learning and knowledge. It explores the challenges faced by students in university, such as time management, financial constraints, depression, making new friends, homesickness, and offers recommendations on how to overcome them. The document also provides references for further reading.

Study skills for higher
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ABSTRACT
Study skills provides adequate guidelines all across the complete ability that is required
in higher education and includes different functions as like time management, development skills
and ability to learn new things, skills of listening and learning, writing notes proper notes in the
lectures. Skills are the ability to perform any task with the easiness and within the certain period
of time that helps an individual in higher education.

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................3
Identify and evaluate some of the main challenges that students experience when they start
university.....................................................................................................................................3
ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION...................................................................................................6
Challenges that experienced by the students. .............................................................................6
RECOMMENDATION...................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION
Study skills for higher education are the skills that adds the confidence, competence,
believe, self-esteem in an individual and it enhance the ability to learn something new and with
that gain more and more knowledge (Cottrell, 2019). Study skills are very much important to
gain the advantage in higher education in terms of effective outcomes as like if students works
with more effort then there works becomes more worthwhile. There are some study skills that
helps an individual to enhance their knowledge and helps to gain more and more experience
these are as like active learning skills, stress management, listening skills, sharp memory, taking
continuous test.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Identify and evaluate some of the main challenges that students experience when they start
university.
As per the viewpoint of Mollie porien, 2018, there are some different challenges that is
faced by the students while studying in university as like they face difficulties to manage their
time due to other commitments as family and work. While studying in universities it create more
memories that will remains with the students for their entire life. University life have a lot of
patches as each and every students gone through with different situations and manage that
situation as per their own knowledge and that provides a lot of learning not only about the
subjects but with that about the life as well (Drew, 2018). But while crossing the schools and
students will enter in university they must face various challenges that are as explained below as: Study: Universities has lot more then the academic thus students must resist lot of effort
to fulfil and accomplish that extra works. These are as seminars, curriculum activities,
sports, additional programmes, cultural events and many more. Whereas, most of the high
schools and universities pack with the two year course into one year. For that students
must have to complete 15 semester pack, 18 semester pack or mights have 21 semester
pack as well. It is not possible for all to measure the high percentages and performance
for a continuous period of time. For that students must comply of the particular period of
semester as per their own abilities. Furthermore enhance the capabilities of time
management and keeps the mind even more fresh and cool. That helps the students to
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overcome from the challenge and also helps to increase the concentration and focus on
their studies and works. Money: It is also one of the most common challenge that is faced by the students in their
higher education. As tutors rates has been increased on timely basis and as much the
experience and knowledge the tutor have that much costly their couching's are thus it is
quite tough for the students to manage the tutor cost. Students must also get a lot of
challenge to manage the cost of meals, notebooks and textbooks, transportation cost,
accessories cost etc. thus there are so many students who drop out their education
because of they can't afford that much money (Jääskelä, 2018). For that students must
takes loan as those who have good marks in their graduation or schools and they further
pay back that amount when they get the job after gaining proper education in higher
studies. With that students also must choose those universities that is near by their home
that helps to prevents the transportation cost. Thus students must further invest that
money in their higher education with that gain more and more knowledge that helps to
gain a better placement after the education.
 Depression: It is a mental state of an individual that must be varies as per the different
conditions and situation. It shows the stress level of the student that will be generated
while facing different consequences in their life period. As there are different activities
that has been goes on in the universities thus it is quite complex to balance all the
different situation (Wright, 2018). And it is not necessary that everyone like every
subjects some time some of the chapters become hectic thus it depressed the students.
Thus to overcome with this situation students must go for the parties as to get the relief
from the several thing that is gone on random basis. Students must also attempts
counselling in which they share their mental stress and counsellor will provide accurate
solution to overcome with the problems and provides different techniques through which
students get the help to get out off from all the depressions. Finding new friends: It is not easy to find new friend especially when an individual
enters in complete new and different environment. Some of the people have introvert
personality while some have extrovert personality thus with that it is also not necessary or
mandatory to make some new friends. For that students must believe in their own and be
patience as it is very random process to make the friends. For that student must be active
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and participate in all the activities and then it is very easy to create more friends (Lim,
2018). Homesickness: As it is the first time when students gone far away from their homes to
gain the higher education and for that they feel quite more uneasy. And it is a challenges
to cope up with new atmosphere and it is hard for the students to manage themselves in
the new complete new environment. But that situation must be overcome by the students
with the help of communication technologies. As there are various technological facilities
through which students will make direct contact with their family and share their view
with them. Thus with that students must easily overcome from this challenge and easily
accept the new opportunity that has been provided by the universities (Wilson, 2018). Time management: It is the biggest issue or the challenge that affects the education as
students also have only 24 hours in a day and in that they have to perform different work
as like attending classes, participate in different activities, have fun with the friends,
attend gym, dance and other classes as well that varies as per the hobbies and many
more. And to manage the time and provide equal time to each activity with that manage
the studies is the biggest stress. Thus for that students must learn about the time
management and manage the time as per allocating time to all the activities develop the
habit by making proper plan. Thus complete each function within or before the particular
time.
 Sickness conditions: This will be developed when students didn't manage their work on
time and taking inadequate sleep, miserable self care would affects the health of all. In
addition to this, students illness will be increased as they are become more free and didn't
takes care of their food and sleep (Villarreal, 2018). Imbalance in the diet create more
illness and as students are away from their family and thus there is no one who binds
them. Students are also not that much mature enough to manage themselves thus for that
to overcome and vanish this issue students must go for the clinic for their check-ups. And
also takes proper and balanced diet with that assign time to all take a proper and required
sleep and eat the food in different shifts as breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION
Challenges that experienced by the students.
As per the view of Mollie porien it has been analysed that students must phase different
challenges while staring the universities after the schooling. For that students must overcome the
different challenges by using different study skills as like time management and develops more
abilities of learning and listening (Virtanen, 2019). These challenges must comes with the
different norms that create more pressure on the students that might overcome their studies and
have negative impact on the studies of an individual. Thus for that students must use different
factor to get over from these challenges and try to live the university life in more effective and
efficient manner.
RECOMMENDATION
It has been recommended that study skills plays a vital role and helps to develops the
personality of all the persons. If students must follows the study skills as like learning and
listening abilities, time and work management etc. then it helps to builds more confidence and
helps to gain more and more competitive advantage. Thus to gain the advantage in higher skills
all the individual must follows the study skills that empowers an individual and helps to generate
more cognition.
CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from the above report that study skills plays an important role in
higher education. There are different challenges that is faced by an individual while in the
university and with that students must apply study skills that helps them to develop and retain
their knowledge and experience.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Cottrell, S., 2019. The study skills handbook. Macmillan International Higher Education.
Drew, S., 2018. The student skills: guide. Routledge.
Jääskelä, P., Nykänen, S. and Tynjälä, P., 2018. Models for the development of generic skills in
Finnish higher education. Journal of Further and Higher Education. 42(1). pp.130-142.
Lim, D., 2018. Quality assurance in higher education: A study of developing countries: A study
of developing countries. Routledge.
Villarreal, V. and Martinez, A., 2018. Assessing Study Skills in College Students: A Review of
Three Measures. Journal of College Student Development. 59(5). pp.629-635.
Virtanen, A. and Tynjälä, P., 2019. Factors explaining the learning of generic skills: a study of
university students’ experiences. Teaching in Higher Education. 24(7). pp.880-894.
Wilson, J.D., 2018. Student learning in higher education. Routledge.
Wright, J., 2018. Learning to learn in higher education. Routledge.
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Porien. M., 2018. 9 common problems students face during university life. [ONLINE] Available
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