Case Study: Time Management and its Importance in Student Success

This case study report examines the critical role of time management in student success, emphasizing its impact on goal achievement, prioritization, stress management, and confidence-building. Effective time management enables students to plan their day, allocate appropriate time to various tasks, and complete assignments efficiently. The report highlights how setting priorities, reducing stress, and boosting self-confidence through structured time management contribute to improved academic performance. By managing their workload effectively, students can enhance their learning, reduce anxiety, and achieve their academic goals, making time management an essential skill for success. Desklib provides a platform for students to access similar case studies and solved assignments to further aid their academic journey.

INDIVIDUAL CASE STUDY
REPORT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Importance of time management in the success of students .......................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Time management can be defined as the task through which the daily activities of an
individual can be managed effectively. This means that the process of allocating the right of
amount of time to an activity in such a way that an individual can easily plan out their whole day
and allocate the time to necessary activities (Pieterse, Stiggelbout, and Montori, 2019). The
present report is based on determining if effective management of time is crucial for the success
of the success or not. And, also aims to determine the importance of effective time management
for the purpose successful study.
MAIN BODY
Importance of time management in the success of students
Time management refers to management of the time an individual has within a day in
such a way that the time can be utilized effectively and all the tasks that needs to be completed
within a stipulated time frame can be managed and carried out on time. The ability to manage the
time is very helpful and beneficial in the lives of the students. From my personal experience, I
have identified the importance of time management in carrying out successful study in a number
of ways:
Achievement of goals
It has been analysed that time management helps the students in achieving their goals
faster as compared to when do not manage their time on the regular basis. When the students
plans their day in the morning or a night before and allocate the time required for each subject or
activity, it gets easier for them to carry out the assigned tasks on time (IRIKEFE, ). On the other
hand, when the students try to study unplanned without eve knowing what do to, they caught up
in wasting their time in deciding what they want to do and gets confused within all the work that
is being piled up already and cannot see any kind of effective outcomes from the same.
Similarly, in order to complete all my assignments provided by my tutors on time, I try to plan
my day in advance and allocate the required to each activity. This helps me in managing my time
as well as completing the assigned task on time.
Setting priorities
The time management helps the students in determining their priorities and carrying out
the required action for them. In order to manage the time and complete all the important tasks
within a single day, it requires the students to plan in advance and prepare a time table for the

same (Arunkumar, and SuryaPrakash, 2018). The preparation of time table helps the students in
determining the activities that needs to done as early as possible and then carry out the ones that
are not so important. For instance, whenever I have to prepare more than one assignment in a
single day, I prepare a time table and determine the one which needs to submitted early and then
carry out the same at first then carry out the rest. Likewise, it helps the students in determining
the essentials tasks at first and then work on them initially.
Stress management
The time management helps the students in reducing their stress. When the students do
not study by managing all the subjects together, it gets difficult for them study a long list of
subjects all together within a limited amount of time. This also increases their stress level and
hampers the success that they might get if they had followed the strategy of time management.
With the help of time management, the students learns to manage all the subjects, study for the
same regularly and enhance their learning by keeping a note of what they had study and what
needs to be covered now (Agadzhanova, 2019). This reduces their burden and promotes their
learning and development and also reduces their stress level. When the students are free from
stress, they learn and gain faster and easily develops an understanding towards the subject which
helps them in achieving success within the study.
Boosts confidence
When the work of the students is well managed and gets completed on time on a
regularly, it develops and inculcates a feeling of confidence within the students that they can
easily carry out a specific task. And it has been identified and observed within various studies
that one of the major contributors of success is the feeling of self-confidence within an
individual. The feeling of confidence within an individual leads them towards the path of success
as the one who has self-confidence never get scared of any situation. They learn to tackle all sort
of situations and believes in their strengths and capabilities to achieve their goals. It helps them
in setting high bars and trying to reach them effectively and efficiently (Fleming, and Kowalsky,
2021). All of these factors helps the students in achieving their goals and leading a path of
success with the help of effective time management. For instance, whenever, I have a planned
schedule already prepared for the activities and tasks that I have to do within a day, it gives me a
sense of relief as I know how I am going carry out each activity within the stipulated time. This
develops a sense of confidence within myself and allow me to carry out the activities without

getting scared of how am I going to do this. Thus, helps me in successfully achieving my goals
with the help of effective time management.
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it can be concluded that the effective management of time is
crucial for the student's success and is essential to successful study. The time management helps
the students with a range of activities such as successfully accomplishing the required goals on
time, prioritizing their work, reducing their burden and stress and boosting their confidence. All
of these factors helps the students in carrying out successful study and help them in achieving the
success. The decrease in the stress helps the students in learning and developing an
understanding towards the subject faster, the ability to prioritize the work helps them in carrying
out important activity at first, and lastly, the development of self-confidence boosts their morale
and helps them in achieving their goals.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
Fleming, R.S. and Kowalsky, M., 2021. The Importance of Effective Time Management.
In Survival Skills for Thesis and Dissertation Candidates (pp. 11-14). Springer, Cham.
Arunkumar, S. and SuryaPrakash, N., 2018. Importance of time management for college
students. International Journal of Management, IT and Engineering, 8(4), pp.16-21.
IRIKEFE, O.P., Roles, Importance and Benefit of Time Management in achieving
Organisational Objectives.
Agadzhanova, R.M., 2019. The importance of time management and self-management skills for
students.
Pieterse, A.H., Stiggelbout, A.M. and Montori, V.M., 2019. Shared decision making and the
importance of time. Jama, 322(1), pp.25-26.
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