Case Study Report: Importance of Time Management for Student Success

This report examines the importance of time management for students, emphasizing its role in enhancing learning and academic success. It identifies key time management skills such as planning, prioritization, decision-making, and boundary setting. The report details how effective time management enables students to achieve goals faster, reduce stress, improve health, prevent procrastination, and boost confidence. It also highlights the benefits of organized work habits and increased time for extracurricular activities, leading to timely completion of assignments and improved learning outcomes. The conclusion reinforces that mastering time management is crucial for students to optimize their study habits and overall academic performance.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Time Management Skills........................................................................................................1
Effective management of time is crucial for students' success...............................................2
Importance of effective time management to successful study..............................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Time management refers to the ability to plan, organise, prioritise, delicate and synchronise
the activities of an individual in such a manner that maximum time is utilised and least wastage
of time occurs. Time management is very important for a student to enhance their learning and
studying activities (Stewart, Miertschin and Goodson, 2020). Effective time management
encourages the work completion of the students in given deadlines and it also helps the students
to pay attention and not waste time on distractions. The following report will discuss time
management skills and its importance for the student's success in studies.
MAIN BODY
Time Management Skills
There are many time management skills that can be adopted by a student to develop time
management ability. Certain time management skills include automating tasks, organising,
clarity, completion, stress management, preparing schedule or routine, discipline and avoiding
procrastination, flexibility, focusing or avoiding multitasking, goal setting, maintaining a flow,
punctuality, rest and recovery, setting deadlines etc. Sum of the important time management
skills are explained below.
 Planning: It is very important for managing time by students because it helps to prepare
task lists, work in sequence, calendar planning, project preparations, resolving agendas all
require planning.
 Decision making and prioritisation: The decision making activities are helpful to
prioritise various activities of the students (Kuzilek, Zdrahal and Fuglik, 2021).
 Setting boundaries and saying no: Another skill of time management is setting
boundaries that is a precious resource that an individual possesses. Saying no is helpful to
avoid time wastage and boundaries helps to limit the wasteful activities.
 Delegating and outsourcing tasks: The delegation of tasks is helpful to divide tasks
among the others so that focus on highest value activities can be maintained and time for
priority tasks can be used.
There are many other time management essentials that are required for managing time
effectively such as automating tasks, organising, clarity, preparing schedule or routine, etc.
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Effective management of time is crucial for students' success
Effective time management gives chances for the students to complete more work in a very
little time because they become highly attentive and focused. It also helps them to reduce
distractions and wasteful activities so that they can effectively use time and lower their stress
levels and complete their work and learning activities before the deadline. The effective use of
time also reduces the stress of the students and improves their ability to complete their
assignments, projects, group works, etc. on time and this helps them to achieve early goals.
With effective time management, students can complete their work on time and constantly
engage themselves in the learning activities (Won and Shirley, 2018). This will add more time
for the students to pursue their learning activities and other activities such as sports, health and
fitness, hobbies, quality time with friends and family, etc. The ability of managing time
effectively can bring a sense of accomplishment for the students because of timely completion of
work. Time management is also considered as the most desirable skill for enhancing the
employability of a student.
Importance of effective time management to successful study
The main benefits of time management to study successfully are as follows:
 Achieve goals faster: Proper time management improves effectiveness and helps to
achieve the objectives and goals that are better results in studies. It provides opportunities
to manage the time in such a manner that multi-tasking can be avoided and focus on a
single task can be achieved for achieving it effectively.
 Helps to prioritise the work: Time management helps to plan and prioritise the
important tasks that require the maximum focus and attention to be done before any other
task (Rothwel and Shields, 2021). Students can prioritise their works such as assignments
over study sessions or study groups to complete the assignments on time.
 Helps to achieve more in less time: Time management helps to eliminate the wasteful
activities and improve the utilisation of time. With the help of proper utilisation of time
the students can achieve their objectives and goals in less time.
 Reduce stress and improve health: If the work is not completed on time it becomes a
reason for stress and anxiety. With proper time management the work can be completed
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on time and results can be achieved earlier which can help to eliminate unwanted stress
and improve the health conditions of the students.
 Prevent procrastination: It refers to a slippery slope that leads to the over burden of
activities, frustration and low grades of the students. With the help of proper time
management the procrastination can be prevented and learning and study activities can be
enhanced.
 Boost confidence and improve career growth opportunities: Proper time management
helps to increase the confidence for completing the task on time and brings a sense of
accomplishment. The time management activity is considered as a very important factor
to improve personal and professional growth opportunities of a person.
 Keep the work organised: Time management helps to organise the activities of an
individual by creating a schedule, routine or fixed time table so that daily tasks can be
organised properly (Hensley and et. al., 2018). Well organised and systematic things help
to improve the study activities of a student.
 More time for extracurricular activities: When the work is completed according to the
schedules there is extra time left with the students to focus over the extra-curricular
activities and have a little fun in their lives. This gives a fresh start to the students for
improving their studying activities on a daily basis.
 Completion of assignment and learning activities on time: Time management is
important to complete the assignment works on time and improve the learning activities
so that last minute cramming of syllabus can be avoided and better results can be
obtained.
CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from the above report that time management is very important for a
student to enhance their learning and studying activity on a daily basis. Moreover, compositions
of time management skills such as planning, flexibility, decision making, prioritization, routine
or scheduling, etc. are explained in the report. Furthermore, the importance of effective time
management for student's success is discussed. Finally, a discussion about the importance of
effective time management such as achieving the goals faster, reducing stress, work
privatization, etc. has been concluded.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Hensley, L. C. and et. al., 2018. Academic probation, time management, and time use in a
college success course. Journal of College Reading and Learning, 48(2). pp.105-123.
Kuzilek, J., Zdrahal, Z. and Fuglik, V., 2021. Student success prediction using student exam
behaviour. Future Generation Computer Systems, 125. pp.661-671.
Rothwel, C. A. and Shields, J. J., 2021. Setting Students up for Success: Academic Skills Before
and After Participation in 2-4-8, a Proactive Advising Model for Students with
Disabilities. Journal of Postsecondary Education & Disability, 34(4).
Stewart, B. L., Miertschin, S. and Goodson, C., 2020. COVID-19 transitions to online formats
and pre-pandemic foundations for student success: Time management and lifestyle
variables. Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, 20(10). pp.173-189.
Won, S. and Shirley, L. Y., 2018. Relations of perceived parental autonomy support and control
with adolescents' academic time management and procrastination. Learning and
Individual Differences, 61. pp.205-215.
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