Study Skills for Higher Education: Importance and Impact during Covid-19 Pandemic

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Study skills or approaches are way to learn and gathering various types of information
like collecting information, retaining it. (Bonsaksen and et. al., 2019)Study consist of various
type of skills like reading, learning, writing, and verbal. Study skills are learnt because it will
increase the capability and the ability of the learner to learn and experience in real life. Study
skills can be learnt. In higher education the study skills plays an important role. It can make the
students feel more organised and make them feel more capable as compared to others and gives
the individuals confidence that they have learnt. In higher studies it is compulsory to learn on a
regular basis. Study skills can be learnt on any basis because study can be done on anything.
(Mukingambeho and et. al., 2019)The individuals need to practise the study skills on the daily
basis. From the study skills the individual develop their own way to approach and find a way that
is efficient for them, that helps the individual to learn in a faster way. Every individual has its
own efficient way of learning.(Middendorf, J.C., 2018)
MAIN BODY
Corona pandemic has made every individual doubt on their abilities and the skills that
they have gained before the pandemic time. The pandemic time taught every individual that they
have to learn something that is unique from the other individual and it also has to be useful in
their fields that they are operating in currently. It will give them a advantage to make the
employer choose them over the other candidates that are available in the room.(Fahimirad and et.
al., 2019) The students who have graduated or passed their secondary and senior secondary they
have to reconsider and rethink about the qualification they have obtained. Because in pandemic
time schools, colleges, office are operating from the houses itself. Like office meetings were held
on google meets. School classes were taken on zoom, webex, google meet. Students are studying
on online basis and because of this most of the students have faced issues like their eyesight
power have increased. Some students were not able to focus on their studies and it was a major
issue among the students in age between 13 to 17 years children. (Aldulaimi, S.H., 2018)Some
parents were complaining about their children regarding excessive usage of their mobile phones
and laptops. In the pandemic time the individual and parents as well as teachers. During Covid
pandemic the university and the colleges were providing their students the virtual internship and