Academic Skills & Studying: University Life Benefits and Challenges

This literature review explores the multifaceted aspects of university student life, examining both the advantages and the difficulties faced by students. The review delves into the benefits, such as skill development, communication, and the establishment of professional connections, highlighting the role of universities in fostering these opportunities. Simultaneously, it addresses the challenges, including time management, the high cost of education, and homesickness, providing a comprehensive overview of the issues that can impact student performance and well-being. The review draws on multiple sources to support its findings, ultimately concluding that students can overcome challenges and capitalize on opportunities by adopting effective approaches. Recommendations are provided to address the challenges of time management and the cost of education, offering practical strategies for students to enhance their academic and professional success.

LITERATURE REVIEW
[ACADEMIC SKILLS & STUDYING
WITH CONFIDENCE BMM3113] (1)

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................................2
AIM............................................................................................................................................................2
LITERATURE REVIEW.........................................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................................4
RECOMMENDATIONS..........................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills are defined as set of effective competencies that individual learner have
and used to get high scores. It gives them confidence to study and learn particular topic, which
they use to answer each question. The current assignment will be based on specific subject and
present in form of literature review.
AIM
The aim of this report is to determine the benefits and challenges of being a university
student.
LITERATURE REVIEW
In view point of, Leal and et.al., 2018 being a student and studying within a well reputed
university is the best chance to make academic career better, which enable a learner to obtain
excellent employment opportunity. University students may get certain benefits by taking
education within academy. The benefit thing that they may obtain is skills development, which is
quite important and beneficial for them. In term of communication and coordination, a student
may get facility to develop their skills in which they may lack and tend to achieve by setting
goals and objectives that help to clarify their academic career motives. It is one of those places,
where individual may collaborate with other students who may have numerous abilities and
competencies that they may use to understand a topic. They may communicate and collaborate
with them which give chance to learn who to study, and conduct research for their assignment by
using varied sources that accessible in the world of education and use by many students. By
being a university student, individual may get benefit to develop communication, research,
decision making, data gathering, etc. University is the most effective and developing places in
the world, where a learner may learn varied skills and develop their understanding regarding so
many things.
On the other hand, Herbert and et.al., 2020 stated that by being a university student, a
learner may grow physically and mentally by taking part in sports activities and numerous
education courses that has been conducted in academy where many people take part according to
their interest level. Experience and knowledgeable tutors by teaching individual student may
contribute to enhance their knowledge extent and made them mentally fit. They may take

initiative to teach varied subjects, which support students to learn and get benefits from these
currently and in the future. There are many sports activities may conduct within universities that
provide benefits to students to become physically fit person which is actually quite essential to
have so, because it enable them to keep their body flexible and energetic that are the best
qualities of successfully learners. In this progressive and competitive world, several studies may
suggest play sports that develops learner’s self-esteem and confidence level as well. Along with
learning, they may obtain this benefit also that help in certain manners. Words of encouragement
and praise from partners, coach and other team mates may raise their self-esteem and allow them
to feel high confident, which is actually important to felt for students. These things may only
happen while being a university student.
According to, Novo and et.al., 2020 university students may obtain greater knowledge,
make themselves physically & mentally fit by studying in academy, which are the most common
advantages that they may get. The most important benefit that a learner may achieve it
establishment of professional connections and that is only possible to do for them when
individual become a university learner. It is one of those excellent places where they may build
their first and most important and long term beneficial connections or networks with adult who
may provide benefits to them in the future. They may interact with mentors that give them
appropriate directions and useful guidance’s which help further in term of creating a path to get
professional career advantages. Tutors are those people’s that have better experience regarding
life success and capability to give right suggestions. Furthermore, in form of friends, university
students may build strong chain of network that help in their learning process and permit to be
stress free as they may share personal issues with them on the basis of trust, which is the key
element of friendship and a true relationship that students may create while getting studies in
educational organizations.
Govender, (2020) stated that being a university student is not an easy task, it may bring
so many challenges that hamper performance and productivity of learners and put negative
impact on their career success. Lack of time management is quite common, but still difficult
thing that may emerge as a challenge for students during their academic career. There are many
reasons existed in education world which may develop time management as a career growth
barrier for them. For example, lecture delay bring issue for learners in term of making their time,

because of this individual candidate may make further modifications accordingly and this may
get everything complicated. Due to this factor they are unable to manage time which lead to
decrease their efficiency and productivity. It is quite important and challenging for students to
manage their daily activities as it may provide them excellent chance to develop their knowledge
regarding extra-curricular activities like playing chess, reading books and novels out of their
course that may improve their understanding about several new topics.
Anderson and Rivera-Vargas, (2020) contradict that instead of time management issue, a
student may face more critical problem that may influence their growth in negative manner.
Managing cost of education due to expensiveness is a challenge for university students that most
of them may face and attempts to deal with it, which is significant. Just because of this issue,
many of them may take too much stress and that is not good for their mental health, it may drive
a student towards depression. High expensive education courses may crate challenge for those
who are unable to pay for it but also seek to get better learning and knowledge about topic in
which they are highly interested. Furthermore, there are many students in this world may
accessible that take decisions to do not visit home from so long because of travelling investment.
They take initiatives to save money for education purpose instead of spending money on home
visit. It may put negative impact on their mental and physical well-being.
According to, Rathakrishnan and et.al., (2021) homesickness is the biggest challenge that
individual by being an academic learner may face, because it may be the first time for many of
them to being away from home, friends and family that occur this issue. Due to lack of
communication with close people, they may feel and face so in term of challenge. It is a kind of
feeling of emotional distress when a candidate or person go away from their comfort zone like
home and reach at new location or environment where everything is new for them, which bring
homesickness issue that is difficult to overcome as it is a time consuming activity. It is not a
form of mental illness, but still may influence mind of individual student and drive their attention
towards feeling unwell that is not appropriate for their study. Homesickness is the best example
of challenge that students by being university candidates mostly face for short term period.
CONCLUSION
From above discussion, it has been concluded that by developing and using effective
approaches individual students while studying in university has overcome key challenges and

obtained advantages. By following above suitable and appropriate suggestions, students have
achieved higher scores and grows even better than last year of their studies within institute.
RECOMMENDATIONS
 In order to overcome the most common challenge and that is poor time management,
students can take action to create their schedule and conduct their daily activities
accordingly. It is one of the best and most effective approaches that each student can
adopt and use in the context of their academic and professional career. Planning and
scheduling provide varied benefits to them which individual student can enjoy for long
and set aims to achieve unexpected success through it. In term of strategic technique, it
can help students to reduce their exam stress that may threaten them more than the other
challenges. Along with these, planning can also contribute to improve capability of
learner regarding further issues, which they handle easily.
 Furthermore, another challenge that learners may face is high cost of education. They
may handle this issue by choosing right and affordable education courses such as online
learning (Fatonia and et.al., 2020). In recent time, most of the students has adopted this
method, which is quite beneficial for their academic career progress. As it enables them
to develop or improve their skills without wasting much time and taking one step out of
home that is an amazing advantage that they can grab and take it for longer time period
for grabbing further progress opportunities as well. Online education gives students
chance to continue their study by being affected by any factor such as pandemic that
negatively influenced whole world and each sector in which education also included.

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