Study Skills for Higher Education

This report discusses the challenges faced by students in balancing work-life and studies in higher education. It provides solutions to these problems and highlights tactics to improve reading skills at the university.

Study Skills for Higher
Education

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
REFRENCE.....................................................................................................................................6

Introduction
Every student face problems related to balancing work-life at the university as well as
outside the university. Work and study pressure to get good jobs and achieve success effect on
professional life. Students can create balance between study and life by proper planning and on
the other hand also gain reading skills in the university by various method. This report highlight
study and life problems faced by students and also describe solution. Report also demonstrate
tactics used by students to improve reading skills.
Main Body
Problems faced by student at the university and balance it by using proper tactics:
University's study pressure becomes challenging for students. University's different
courses require additional effort than that was in higher education. Most of the university
compiling two year course in one year which creates burden on students, time for recreation
either impossible or very less. Many of student in the universities are from outside the city and
living in hostel or paying guest and cost of their living create another pressure, as most of the
students comes from low economical background and to support their expenditure they has
work part-time because of this create a chaos between study and personal life. Because of high
curriculum, personal growth of students and additional learning capacities become ineffective.
Student those who are Living far from home feel homesick and it effects on their studies. Again
high burden of studies effect on personal health and because of it most of the student started
feeling depressed. Poor health condition and due to high pressure of studies, they study till late
night and because of it become patient of insomnia. As the personal life of scholar is mostly
targeted by university burden and it effects their social life and becomes introvert and less
participative which is necessary for personal growth as well clearing high level interview for the
companies. Student thinks social relation can become distraction for their progress. Sometimes
extra pressure create confusion among student that if they choose right career or not and what
will be their future if it will not work out properly. Time management become difficult for
students and it often creates disturbing life as fail to realize their potential or strength (Fambely,
2020)
Student has to improve their potential by joining clubs of talented students as it improve
knowledge as well skills and decrease their stress. In the universities' student has choice of

selecting courses like 18 courses in one year or 15, and as per their potential has to choose
courses out of it. Sometimes student start feeling exhausted for choosing long courses. Taking
student loan from government bank is comparatively easy and financial institution also provide
flexibility in terms of return and interest, so scholar can balance their expenditure also they can
work for easy part times job like newspaper delivery so it releases them from financial burden
even they have choice of on campus part-time jobs like in library or lab which can help in
decreasing stress. Time management is most important part of student life, student has to give
equal time to study as well as social interaction event like college gathering, partying etc. If
scholar are living far from home, try to make new friend as friends are the only family in student
life and help in coming out from homesickness also try to manage time for recreational activities
like yoga, gym, etc so that remain charged for long time. Scholar has try to travel on holidays or
weekend to explore their knowledge out from university and gain in social life knowledge
which is very necessary for personal growth. Student must try to avoid delaying at university in
work as in the end it creates stress when it comes out to in bulk (Higgins, 2020).
Student improves reading skills at the university:
Students can improve reading skills at the university by various method. They can utilize
different reading material at the university like books, magazines, books on tape, CDs, and other
recorded reading and also check speed of reading and level of understanding as without
understanding there is no meaning of reading. There are different application on android as well
on IOS are available on mobile like word games and para readers, students can use universities
Wi-Fi to download excess them. This Mobile application also allow to check their skill as well
level of understanding. In universities library various kinds of books are available for scholars
and can choose any of it according to their interest and by reading books increases their reading
habits as well as exploring new material. Students joined different clubs at the university where
reading and writing necessary so that they can improve reading skills like Toastmaster. When
students reads the books and finds complex word, they try to break it up and phrase in small
segment as most of them do not like lengthy words which needs special attention and by
breaking the word becomes digestible for students and also increase their dictionary. Student
shows their skills in tests, whether it’s in formal structure or non-formal. They try to relate
reading material to personal life which creates interest in reading of habit like science student
often loves to relate their reading material with life, Arts students relate their material with

social, political and economical world and also connect their creativity with rest of world,
Commerce student associate reading material with general accounting of life and businesses.
Scholar has to choose right place to read like the environment which is free from noise to
reduced the chances of distraction (Ali, 2020). Checking the text before submitting files to
professor also benefit students in improve reading skills also making notes and marking
keywords and concept increase their efficiency of reading as well as help in improving their
knowledge. Paraphrasing of reading by students also helps in improve skills of read. Students
discussion on what they read also becomes advantage from them to advance their reading skills
(Esmaili and Mottaqi, 2017).
Conclusion
From the above report it can be concluded that over burden of study effecting personal as
well work life of study on the other most of the student live far from home and feel
homesickness. Student problems can be solved by recreational activities and time management.
Students spend most of the time in the universities and improve skills like reading. Scholar
improve their skills by choosing different tactics given above.

REFRENCE
Books and Journals:
Ali, H.F., 2020. The Effect of Inquiry-based Approach on Development of Reading and Writing
Skills of a University EFL students. Available at SSRN 3621259.
Esmaili, S. and Mottaqi, E., 2017. An investigation of effect of critical thinking skills on reading
comprehension of literary Arabic texts among Iranian Language and Literature Arabic
students. Language Related Research.8.(2).pp.1-23.
Fambely, C.A., 2020. Committed to yourself or have yourself committed: Balancing family life
with student success. Canadian Journal of Dental Hygiene, 54.(1).
Higgins, A.M., 2020. Work-Life Balance Best Practices (Doctoral dissertation, Walden
University).