Study Skills for Higher Education

Study Skills for Higher
Education

Study skills consists of all those skills which makes students able to learn and study in an
effective manner and become successful (Thompson, 2017). This present study is going to show
some skills which are required for students for becoming successful and getting higher marks. It
will discuss effectiveness and importance of goal setting, risk taking and personal responsibility
skills for students along with description as how it can enable to them to accomplish their goals.
Further, it will discuss some other additional skills such as: adaptability, time management,
decision-making and others which also play an important role in students; success.
Three habits which are important for student success is having some skills which can
make them differ than others and can allow them to grow and getting goods marks. There are
some skills which can help students at academic as well as in personal life (Habits of Successful
People that Transform Life, 2020). As competition is increasing day by day which is increasing
pressure for students. But by having some skills, students can make themselves stressed free.
Goal setting is one of the preliminary skills without whom it is not possible for students to go
ahead and get success. By setting both short-term and long-term goals, students can motivate
themselves for working harder. Ability of setting goals boost their confidence and provide a clear
and right direction as what they actually want to achieve, what they want to become (Mercy,
2019). By having this skill of goal setting students can even know their effectiveness and
monitor themselves as where they are going or if they are on the right track or not. It protects
them against failure and by monitoring their direction on the basis of goals they can take better
actions accordingly and in a timely manner. It is important in giving up the right direction to
students and make them able to get success. It makes them aware about their own actions and
allow them to complete tasks or study on time which is crucial for their success.
Ability to take responsibility of own actions is important for students to have ability to
take responsibilities of failure of success and not to blame on others. When students blame others
because of their failure then it affects their relation and also create barriers in the path of their
success. Students who do not take responsibilities of their own actions are more likely to become
arrogant, and they find difficulties in accepting failure. So, it is important for students to have an
ability to take responsibilities of own failure and success as it makes them polite and able to
accept failures in an effective manner as an opportunity (Mergler, 2017). They are more likely to
learn from their failure story which makes them able to work harder and accomplish goals as
well. Personal responsibility shows their personal character and it is one of the best ways of

creating a satisfying life otherwise, dissatisfaction can lead several problems and make students
frustrated. It is important increases academic integrity and honesty, makes students able to
complete their tasks in a timely manner because this skill reduces procrastination. They are less
likely to make excuses which increases trust and loyalty.
Risk taking for students and people life is full of uncertainties as there are several
extremal environmental factors which create several changes in students life. For making
themselves frustration free and adapting changes it is important for them to have risk taking skill.
Those students who take risks are more likely to get success in their life. It is stated that if there
is no risk then there are no rewards so, for taking rewards and taking opportunities students
require taking risks. It sometimes leads to failure but many of the time can give success as well.
For this skill, they require of having courage to face the fear of uncertainties. When students take
risks then they learn several new things no matter if they become success but the whole process
and fear of taking risks make them stronger which is important for them in getting higher marks
and career growth (Din, Anuar and Usman, 2016). It increases confidence among them and
confidence plays an important role for higher study and achieving good marks. By encouraging
peer-based learning, students can increase this skill. it is important in increase skill is it increases
self-esteem in students, make them able to learn new skills, makes them empowered to make
choices in their life and make them able to learn ways of accepting failures.
So, on the basis of above discussed skills or habits along with their importance it can be said that
students can get higher grades and can become successful in academic field.
Rather, above discussed skills there are several other skills which also play a vital role in
students' success and can make them able to get higher marks and career development.
Flexibility is an ability to adapt changes which occur in internal and external environment. There
are several external environmental factors which gets changed and these changes can have
negative impacts on students' life if they do not have flexibility ability. For example: Covid-19,
this environmental change affected several people including students (Yucel, Karahoca and
Karahoca, 2016). Due to this change students and teachers are finding problems in continuing
classes so, they choose to continue study via online classes and it is quite difficult but one of the
best way of coping up with current situation. Those students who have flexibility skill, they are
more likely to benefited from online classes and those who are lacking in this skill are still facing
problems. So, for becoming successful in education, students require having this skill.