Exploring the Importance of Goal Setting for University Students

This essay examines the importance of goal setting for university students, highlighting how setting both short-term and long-term academic goals can enhance motivation, focus, and academic success. The essay defines academic goals, emphasizing their role in shaping career paths and providing motivation. It explores the benefits of goal setting, such as increased motivation and improved focus. The essay also differentiates between short-term and long-term goals, providing examples of each, and discusses comprehension and retention strategies such as monitoring comprehension, meta-cognition, and summarization. The essay concludes by reiterating the significance of goal setting as a driver for academic achievement.

Why is it Important to
Set Goals

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
What are goals and importance to set them................................................................................3
Short term and long term academic goals for university students..............................................4
Comprehension strategies...........................................................................................................4
Retention strategies.....................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
A goal refers an idea of getting a future result. Students have academic goals which they
mainly want to accomplish by the end of the semester (Valle, A. and et.al., 2016). It is often
performance based which helps them out in completing both short term and long term goals. This
study is going to show importance as well as reasons of setting goals by university students.
Further, it will also show main short term and long term goals which they set while studying.
MAIN BODY
What are goals and importance to set them
In the context of academic goals it can be said that it refers career goals and those goals
which help students in making their career and give them a specific career path. Academic goals
plays an important role as it works as a motivation to work harder in accomplishing them. It may
be long-term and short term which lead students to become a good persona and complete their
studies effectively. Setting a goal keeps students motivated and dedicated towards their work.
There are several benefits of setting academic goals by university students which are discussed
below:
Increase motivation: Goals help them to work actively and involve in group discussion and all
those things which can help them out in accomplishing goals. The commitment which they put
into makes them more likely to follow them. So, it can be said that setting goals make them
motivated (Alessandri and et.al., 2020).
Improve focus: One of the main importance of setting goals by students is to improve focus and
concentration. Competition is increasing day by day and for being in the competition it is
important to focus on studies. By setting goals, university students can concentrate on things that
they want to achieve. All students want to get a good grade but only few students can get better
grades and one of the main reason of their focus or concentration which happen by setting goals.
Increase academic success: All short term and long term goals may differ but for accomplishing
them, it is important to focus on study so, they give extra time in studies for improving
education. It eventually helps them out in getting academic success at least (Martin and Elliot,
2016).

Short term and long term academic goals for university students
Academic goals which university students set may be short-term and long-term. Some
short-term goals include:
 Getting a better grade and marks in the next project for improving self-confidence.
 Asking teacher for guidance and get better marks than before semester.
 Creating a consistent study schedule.
All these types of short-term goals help university students help them to make a bigger picture
and these goals mainly increase confidence in them (Lee and et.al., 2017).
Some types of long term goals include:
 Achieving a better grades than others and get the first position.
 Completing the course effectively.
 Completing graduation on the time in efficient manner.
Long-term goals take longer and or may be a specific time to achieve. It may also include some
short term goals or it can be said that by accomplishing some short term goals, students can
accomplish a one or specific long-term goal.
Comprehension strategies
Comprehension strategies are considered to be conscious plans with have in set to set in order to
make the readers An irrespective changes in better way this strategy who helps in proper level of
instrumentality to students which became useful in more active readers (Nisbet and Shucksmith,
2017). This is helpful in masking control of their Reading comprehension.
The strategies are such as the-
Monitoring comprehensions
Monitoring comprehensions makes the students to have the proper level of monitoring with
regard to their respective understanding towards the important headlines. This ill helps in proper
fixation of issues which are rising in understanding the problems.
Meta Cognition
This is defined as the as process thinking about thinking's which makes the good reader in order
to have the clears way thinking's and providing of significant text. This will be helping in proper
monitoring the issues of understanding along with adjustment the reader speed in order to fit
difficulty of texts ans the fixations of any respective comprehensiveness problem.
Graphics and semantic organizers

This is helpful in proper level of illustration along with concept and interrelationships which can
be useful through using clear texts ans diagrams in respective way. There are known with
different names such as the maps, web charts along with frames and clusters.
This is also helpful in have the proper focusing of readers which also extents to be helpful for
students to clearly read and underrated the textbooks' and picture book.
Retention strategies
The retention is among the most level of stringer challenges in terms of misleading along with
having proper level of professional developments. The three ways which can be helpful in
improviser the layering for students as such as
summarization
This is considered to be truthful test whether the leaders was applicability in gaining the
knowledge in more perfect way (Broadbent, 2017). This is helpful in more way by promising
the corporate level of informativeness which eviscerated to memory.
Repetition
This is considered to be potential solution's as it have clearances in serving two purpose. As it
helps take the information from storage in short term memory to storage in long-term memory
where we want it to be. The best time for repetition to occur is immediately after, or even during,
the training. This is helpful in focusing over proper skills of informativeness along with
representation of programmed and challenging the learner as well as informativeness.
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it can be summarized as academic goals are the career goals
which helpful for students in making their career in specific career path. It works as a motivation
to work harder in accomplishing to become a good persona and complete their studies
effectively. All short term and long term goals may differ but for accomplishing them, it is
important to focus on study It eventually helps them out in getting academic success. Monitoring
comprehensions makes the students to have the proper level of monitoring with regard to their
respective understanding towards the important headlines.

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