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

This article discusses the importance of study skills in higher education and how they were impacted during the Covid-19 pandemic. It highlights the need for individuals to upgrade their skills and techniques with online courses and further studies to stay competitive in the job market.

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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

work from homes which was the most and reasonable option at that time. From virtual
internships the individuals have their experience counted in their CV. If the individual is doing
more specialisation in their fields and the field of their study. The individual will have that
counted in their CV. The individual have to make themselves more productive in the field of
their specialisation because of the competition level that was increased with the time. Because of
the competition level there is huge competition in every field whether it is job or giving
competition exams. In various courses it is a compulsory scheme which says that individuals
have to gain and show the experience of a corporate company which is related to their
specialisation.
I am quite satisfied with my CV on the basis of the lockdown I took several courses
while sitting at home, which can be counted on my CV. The course was also the reason that I
have gained the experience during the lockdown time while I was stuck at my house. I learned
several and uncountable things like learned foreign language while interacting with the foreign
clients that were allotted to me. In the mean time I helped and provided my help to the local
businesses and vendors who were most effected at the time of pandemic by doing online
promotion and doing digital advertisement and providing them their daily livelihood which was
even harder in the pandemic times. I gave multiple interviews in the multi-national companies
but they prefers the candidate who have broad and consistent knowledge in that particular field
and were hiring the candidates who were more experienced then me. But after gaining the
experience in foreign language and then giving interviews. The interviewers were impressed
with my knowledge and the level of fluency that I have gained after interacting with several
consumers(Villarreal and et. al., 2018).

CONCLUSION
The above essay concludes that during the time of Covid pandemic in which the students
have just passed the university and were considering doing the further studies but forced to stay
at homes during the pandemic time. The individual tried to utilise their time by doing the online
courses from their homes. They have upgraded their skills and techniques by doing courses or
doing further studies. Thus the pandemic wont effect the individual on the basis of their CV. So
after the lockdown at least they can get a job after the pandemic was over. After explaining all
this the individual have provided its experience which will reflect on the CV.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Bonsaksen and et. al., 2019. Factor analysis of the Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for
Students in a cross‐cultural occupational therapy undergraduate student
sample. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 66(1), pp.33-43.
Mukingambeho and et. al., 2019. Levels of Study Skills Among Undergraduate Students in
Rwanda: The Case for the National Police College. Interchange, 50(2), pp.221-247.
Middendorf, J.C., 2018. Increasing Retention through Math Study Skills. Western Illinois
University.
Fahimirad and et. al., 2019. Integration and Development of Employability Skills into
Malaysian Higher Education Context: Review of the Literature. International
Journal of Higher Education, 8(6), pp.26-35.
Aldulaimi, S.H., 2018. Leadership soft skills in higher education institutions. Social Science
Learning Education Journal, 3(7), pp.01-08.
Villarreal and et. al., 2018. Assessing study skills in college students: A review of three
measures. Journal of College Student Development, 59(5), pp.629-635.