Study Skills for Higher Education

Study Skills for Higher
Education

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................1
a. Role of building comprehension and retention in improving quality of learning and
academic achievement of the students .......................................................................................1
b. Obstacles pertaining to building comprehension and retention..............................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Study skills is considered as an array of gaining or attaining new skills that contributes in
the process of dealing with assessments along with the retention of important information. The
number of advantages which are associated with same includes effective reading, high
concentration and efficient note taking. Currently, the presence of skills in respect to the study
and learning is minimal in students (Asonitou, 2015). This will have direct impact over their
academic career which restricts them in performance of functions. The main aim of this report is
about ascertainment of the role of building reading comprehension and retention in improvement
of the learning and academic achievement of the students.
This report covers the role of building comprehension and retention in improvement of
the quality of learning and increment in academic achievement of students and obstacles
pertaining to building comprehension and retention.
Main Body
a. Role of building comprehension and retention in improving quality of learning and academic
achievement of the students
Presence of skills in student is important to carry on studies in prominent manner. The
different kind of common skills that builds the song base for the students includes learning,
reading, retaining and understanding. These all have their different role and contribution in
growth of the student. Learning skill help in creation of ability among the students to focus over
new concepts every time. This will further contributes in gaining knowledge which is new an
different in all sense (Assiter, 2017). Reading skill help in effective presentation of the concept
along with the retention of matter for longer period of time. So, attainment of reading skill help
to grab the retention skill too. The integrated contribution has huge advantage behind the
creation of critical thinker. In last, understanding is the main aspect. This can be done in actual
sense in the situation when have good reading and retention skill. This is the reason that it comes
at last in place. The effective development of understanding skill aid in transformation of
perspectives along with the construction of meanings.
The man two that must have by the students is reading comprehension and retention as
this will have most optimum impact over quality of learning and achievements of students. In the
current scenario, many college students have marginal skill related to reading comprehension
1