Study Skills For Higher Education

Study Skills For Higher
Education
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................3
Importance of setting goals and identification of some short-term and long term goals.............3
Some methods to improve ability to remember new informations..............................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION
Study and learning skills refers approaches which are being applied to learning. This
study is going to show importance of setting goals in academic level (Pieper and et.al., 2019). All
these help students in focusing on their study and performing all activities in an efficient manner.
Further, it will also show importance of both short-term and long term goals which provides a
direction to students. There are some ways of increasing skills and ability t remember a lot of
things and having informations in the mind such as: keeping a reading journal, summarizing,
questioning etc.
LO 1
Importance of setting goals and identification of some short-term and long term goals
Academic goals refers educational objectives which students set for themselves. It may
be short term and long term. Goal setting is an important part which works as like a motivation
for people. In the context of students and academic level, it can be said that goal setting is
fundamental to long term success. It is something which helps students to concentrate on their
study and on those things for which they have set goals. It can be said that for completing any
type of work whether it is study, getting the highest score and other have some intention and
there is requirement of motivation and goals. For example: Students wants to complete their
schooling effective with great scores because some of them wants to get a good college for
further studies, some want to complete graduation for getting a good job. So, each work is being
completed for some purpose and it is considered as goals. Without setting goals, people cannot
complete their work in an efficient manner (Greco and Kraimer, 2020). There are several reasons
of setting goals and why students set goals are discussed below:
One of the main reason of setting goals and the importance of goal setting is it gives
students focus. Completing work without focus is waste of time and efforts and without focus,
abilities of students is useless. So, it can be said that for achieving goal and something attractive,
it is important to focus on efforts. Goals give direction in which students can go and perform
their functions in a very effective manner.
Other main importance of setting goals is it helps students from procrastination because
after setting goals, students make themselves accountable to complete or finish tasks. Goals
which removes procrastination are generally long term goals. Students or people become more
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