Study Skills for Higher Education

Study skills for higher education
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Importance of goals setting .........................................................................................................3
Short term and long term goals for university student.................................................................4
Method to improve retention of information among students.....................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Higher study helps in enhancing skill and knowledge of individual that can be used in
career to perform specific task or learn new skills. Continuous reviewing study skill will boost
individual confidence as it increases knowledge and skill of individual to perform function. This
report explains about importance of goals setting for an individual for career growth. It also
describes about short term and long term goals for universities students. At last this report
evaluate and identify various method that students can use to enhance their capacity to remember
new things.
Importance of goals setting
Goal is planning for thing that a person want to achieve in future period by performing
specific task. Therefore, goals setting is important for individual as it promotes growth and
development of by identifying things that a person wants to achieve in life (Assiter, 2017). Goals
or dream are like oxygen, and they are the first step towards of our journey as they make us
understand where to go and what to achieve in life. Without goals people will not try to develop
its skill and knowledge and attempt to achieve success. Importance of goals setting is as follows:
It gives Focus: Goals encourage focus and dedication of individual as it will make more effort to
attain or achieve predetermined goals. An individual cannot achieve anything in life without
specific goals as it motivate person to stay positive , focused and make continuous efforts to
achieve them. Thus, it can be stated that goals will helps in enhancing student focus to get better
grade in the future.
It helps in measurement of individual performance: Person can measure its performance
effectively by setting a benchmark or goals that need to be achieved within specific time frame.
Academic student can review its performance by evaluating it various result of semesters thus
analysing their performance and evaluate areas where they lack (Thompson, 2017). Thus, by
improving areas in which they lack can enhance their skill and knowledge for future growth.
It motivates students: Student stay motivated and committed to their setting goals if supported
by parents and teachers. Goals motivated them to work hard for better grade in exam and to
devote extra time to meet their set goals. Thus, they gain better understanding and knowledge
about subject which helps in development of individual.