Study Skills for Higher Education

Study Skills for Higher
Education

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Three habits which are important for student success.................................................................3
Additional skills that students need for higher studies and becoming successful.......................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
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.
MAIN BODY
Three habits which are important for student success
For higher education, students require 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.
1. Goal setting: It is one of the preliminary skill 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.
Importance: It gives 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.
2. Ability to take responsibility of own actions: It is also 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