Academic Goals: Short-Term, Long-Term Strategies, and Implications

This report explores the significance of academic goals for university students, differentiating between short-term and long-term objectives. It emphasizes how setting goals enhances working standards and develops essential skills for academic and professional success. The report analyzes the implications and benefits of both short-term goals, such as completing assignments and improving grades, and long-term goals, including career building and achieving benchmarks. Furthermore, it outlines effective methods for students to remember new information, including team discussions, attending seminars, conducting research, setting smart objectives, and improving learning skills during lectures. The conclusion underscores the importance of academic goals in pursuing a clear vision for career performance and overall student growth.

Pursuing a Vision Through
Academic Goals

Table of Content
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Importance of setting goals..............................................................................................................3
Methods students can use to remember new informations- ............................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

Introduction
Academic goals are the educational objectives students set for themselves to evolve their
performance levels over time, based on their career interests and financial feasibility. There is
large focus by students on access to education along with dynamics of career to enter
competitive business world. This report explains short term goals and long term goals, by
analysing their implications along with benefits for students and methods through which students
can use to remember new information and how their performance levels can be evaluated. This
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Importance of setting goals
 Setting goals enable students to enhance their working standards by laying high emphasis
on focus by targeting their goals and quality performance standards (Burkhardt, 2020).
University students by setting goals develop their skills with high competency in studies
and enhance their knowledge standards of studies regarding various research topics.
 Setting goals help students in universities to compete with high advanced skills, develop
their knowledge regarding theoretical aspects of work and how they can implement them
in their practical lives. Short term goals are set by students which are motivated by
professors support in classes of colleges and universities where they focus on reducing
weaknesses, reaching good results in next semester exams.
 Setting goals enable students to represent themselves better in their studies at universities
levels with productive growth and advanced skills to develop their talents. Long term
academic goals are set by students themselves where they focus on building strong
careers and reaching benchmarks in their personal academic courses (Cheng,Armatas,
and Wang, 2020).
Short term goals- This refers to students short term goals where they focus on reaching set
targets in short span of time and work towards gaining high competency in quick time frame.
Short term goals enable students to build high skills to set long term goals in lives and carers for
themselves. These can be understood as completing given assignment by professors with good
grades, becoming team leader or gaining technical training in practical subjects. Short term goals
have long implications on students' performance level as they lay grounds by which students
target to learn keen knowledge aspects by professors and learn ethical values (Dillman and
Zeisman-Pereyo,2020).

 Examples of specific short term goals can be understood as
 Forming study group with your papers
 Creating consistent study schedule
 Getting better grades ion projects
 Starting to study for SAT
Long term goals-This refers to performance based goals such as attaining better performance
grades in universities by end of semesters, entering new college or qualifying for an advanced
class by professors. Long term goals have implications on students performance standards which
highlight how they have achieved their set targets within the time period. Long term goals
prepare students for their careers in ahead life where university performances help them to
achieve high potentiality levels in their signifiant lives. They allow students to achieve success in
long run of life, work in dynamic situations and build advanced soft skills to operate in business
world. Long term goals prepare students for competitive world where there is high demand of
people with strong hard skills of practical subjects, management principles and paves out ways to
attain competitive edge (Goagoses and Koglin, 2020).
Examples of long term gaols are-
Achieving a specific grade
Passing a course
Getting a high SAT score
Graduating on time
Methods students can use to remember new informations-
There are various ways and methods which can be initiated by professors in universities where
students performance levels in their studies can be enriched. Students have high pressure in their
academic courses where there are regular exams, assignments to submit in universities. The
various innovative ways by which students can learn new information productively for reaching
long term goals can be understood as -
 Students should indulge in team discussions with class leaders of universities where there
is high exchange of new information related to subjects, projects and assignments where
professors evaluate their writing skills and knowledge of subjects. This will enable
students to brainstorm their ideas of assignments together and build strong interpersonal
skills which will help them as long term goals in their academic careers (Lanford, 2020).

 Students should attend seminars and training sessions of universities held by professors,
this will help them to learn knowledge productively regarding various subjects. It will
also allow them to gain practical field knowledge of world where there is high level of
competitiveness among students. Seminars will allow students to get training from highly
trained professors and build strategical understanding in them to compete in advanced
world.
 Students should make proper notes by researching the assignment topics through various
sites on internet, through which they will gain skills and competencies to learn new
information of various subjects. This will enrich them to develop quick learning
potentialities and harness developed skills with increased motivation and improved focus
regrading various subjects. Research will help students to utilize the latest sources in their
projects and assignments, analyse the statistics and graphics behind researches and frame
their questions to professors if any (Williams, Mason and Sánchez, 2020).
 Students should set smart objectives which will enable them to set reliable targets in
completed time frame and enable high communication skills in them regarding
assignments completion with team members. This will highly motivate them to excel in
their academic careers and pursue a vision which will increase their quest to reach
extended heights in their careers.
 Students should improve learning skills during lectures by professors which will highly
increase their learning potentialities regrading new information and enhance their keen
knowledge of all topics of assignments. They should maintain proper notes learned in
their classes and conduct proper research with help of internet and keep records in check
by discussing with other students. This will help them to maintain proper cooperation
among students and team members, efficient performance levels and keep their
performance in check with the professors requirements (Yenice and Samanlioglu, 2020).

CONCLUSION
This report concludes academic goals are imperatively important for students to set as
they allow them to pursue a vision of how they can target their career performance levels. Short
term goals enable students to improve their skills regarding their fundamental studies and long
term goals enable them to foresee how they can improve their careers for long term in the future.
This report concludes students should attend seminars and group sessions to enhance their
learning capabilities and productive growth.

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