Study Skills for Higher Education

Study Skills for Higher
Education
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Table of 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................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
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INTRODUCTION
In order to study higher education, it is very essential for students to have good skill and
knowledge so that they can develop their personal as well as professional career growth and
success (Boud, Cohen and Sampson, 2014). The market is full of competition where individual
has to learn different skills to enhance and build themselves for attainment of their career goal
and objectives. The main aim of this essay is to discuss about important of setting short and long
term goals by university students. It also highlights about methods which help students in
improving their new information system.
MAIN BODY
1) Discuss why it is important to set goals. Identify some important short-term and long-term
goals for university students
Academic goals are defined as significant performance targets which assist students in
forwarding progress in educational field (Cottrell, 2019). These serve them as leading indicators
in success by establishing roadmap of both small as large benchmark which guide towards
intellectual growth and success of students. It helps them by providing transparent picture of
what they wanted to achieve through taking different steps. It is not very easy to set right
academic goals. Teachers, students, parents uses tool in order to enhance and improve success in
terms of academic. It is very important to set goal as it provide purpose as well as direction to
students. This is significant as it improved focus, measuring results, increasing motivation,
academic success and improving education experience. Moreover, setting goal keeps motivated
for continuing work, creating focus and staying on track and evaluate in changing actions to meet
goal. While setting academic goals, SMART approach should be followed that includes specific,
measurable, achievable, results focused and time bound.
Short term goals are defined as those which will be completed in short time period. This
can be current time, next week, months and so on (How to Set and Follow Through on Academic
Goals; Examples for Success, 2020). For example, student studying at University wants to
achieve good marks on given project work. This includes getting assistance for particular topic,
forming group study, studying for SAT exam, getting good grade, taking help from teacher and
so on. Short term goals are important for university students as they provide them guideline and
direction to achieve their long term with help of short term goals. This is significant in making
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