Study Skills for Higher Education

STUDY SKILLS FOR HIGHER
EDUCATION

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
A Learning styles and how they help in learning better. ............................................................1
B Study plan defining short term and long term goals for attaining academic and professional
success..........................................................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
To stay in the competition it is essential for every student to have higher study skills that
helps to attain the future goals. Further, the study main aim is to describe different learning
styles, which is the manner and approach that provides a direction, implantation of plans and
also attain the aim and objectives as well (Pruet, Ang and Farzin, 2016). Therefore, report will
describe different learning styles along with their benefits. Further, it will also describe different
learning strategies as well as techniques that helps to improve memory retention. Lastly, report
will describe study plan which includes short- term and long term goals that helps to attain
academic as well as professional success.
MAIN BODY
A Learning styles and how they help in learning better.
Learning styles helps to understand what a child wants to speak or convey. Further, it
also refers to the preferential way through which a person absorb, process and compresence the
information in better way, so that the parents and teacher may easily understand the words and
reply in better way. Thus, it is depend upon cognitive, emotional and environment factors only
and sometimes, to prior experience as well. Styles of learning could be classified, defined and
identified in different ways. There are different types of learning styles.
Three major learning styles and its benefits
 Visual Learners
 Auditory Learners
 Kinaesthetic Learner
Visual Learners
Visual learners very efficiently acquire information, through seeing, reading and by
interpreting the material illustrations. These learners have excellent working memorising and
observation skills, they picturise the location of informations in their textbooks and class notes.
These learners have the ability of seeing action of story performing in the minds and this
develops their strength as strong readers. This helps them to retain everything in mind for long
(MOSAVATI, 2016).
Auditory Learners
Auditory learners are the ones thriving in classes for processing the knowledge via
hearing or verbal communication. They have strong strengths in understanding the loudly read
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