Study Skills for Higher Education Report: LSC, Suffolk, Oct-Dec 2020

This report, prepared for the London School of Commerce in association with the University of Suffolk, focuses on study skills crucial for success in higher education. It identifies three key habits: setting goals, self-discipline, and risk-taking, emphasizing their importance for student achievement. The report also highlights additional beneficial habits like note-taking, proper sleep, and asking questions. Furthermore, it discusses strategies to enhance reading abilities, including annotating texts, personalizing content, and practicing problem-solving. The report concludes with suggestions for improving the quality of written projects, providing a comprehensive guide for students seeking to excel academically.

Study skills for higher
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Introduction
Study skills are one of the most important skills for the students, having a good study
skills within the students can help to increase bear confidence, self estimation, competences an
abilities. It can also help to reduce the anxiety in students about the test and deadlines. A good
study skills within the student can help too improve the ability to learn and retain knowledge
about the useful information. A student who used this skills Mayfield their work an effort in
more worthwhile.
This report will select the three habits that are important and necessary for the students.
this report will identify the habits that our students need and explain why they are important
(Barrable, Papadatou-Pastou and Tzotzoli., 2018. ). it will also discuss some strategies that
students can use to improve their reading abilities. in the end of this report will provide
suggestions that will help to students to improve their quality of their written projects.
Assessment 1
Three habits that are important for student success
There are something some habits that are helpful for students to grow there higher
education double and they can get a success and their students life. it is necessary for them to
adopt some of the habits such as setting a goals, taking responsibility for their actions, , great self
discipline, obsessed with self development, risk-taker. three most important skill our habits in us
successful students are setting a goal in their life, great self discipline and they lost risk taking
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which is most valuable habit in our students. it is necessary for them to have this three habits that
can help them to be successful in their life.
Set goals
It is necessary for the students to have goals in their life that they want to achieve in
future. Having the goals in student life provide a way to achieve them and they give their best to
achieve those goals. A student should create a goals that can define what they want to do in their
life and they should make strategies to achieve success and accomplish Goals. Goals and
objectives provide ability to monitor a student them self so they can see their process and
progress to achieve the goals (Cottrell, S., 2019).They can also see themselves where they are
standing right now and where they want to go in the future. Gold measurement is also important
part of the creating a goals. without having a proper knowledge an measurement of the goals and
the progress of student they can be successful so they should create a goals an they should also
measure them effectively. If these students have a goal in their life they will then they can always
will be knowing that what they are doing and what will be their future planning to achieve
success. A successful people always create a goal in their life that helped them to create desire I
need to achieve those goals an I want to be successful in my life.
Great self discipline
It is one of the most important and best habit to make the students successful in their life
or educational level. In a higher educational student it is necessary for them to have self
discipline in themselves so they can be successful in their life. discipline in front of teachers can
create a good image of the student and they can also get good imageIn teachers mind. Having a
disciplining students make them stay focused toward their goals in their life and they can able to
concentrate on achieving them. with the discipline it's make easy for the student to do any task in
less time or effectively because with the discipline they can easily focused on their work and
they can concentrate what they are doing. successful people always believe that if you are doing
any work than they should always do with the proper discipline because discipline always shows
that how professional you are in your work.
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Risk taker
Race taking in the skill which is not important for the higher educational level but it is
also helpful to make the students to achieve success in their career as well. it is necessary for the
students to take always a risk and learn from the mistake they are doing. without taking a risk,
people cannot be successful in their life so first they should learn to take risk. failure is an part of
the risk so they should always accept the failures and work toward there upcoming future to
make it successful. if there is no risk in their life then they will not gain any kind of reward in
their educational level. most successful people in their lives are Risk taker and this habit make
them successful and they're both career an student life.They believe that if you are not taking a
risk in your life then you cannot achieve success. It makes necessary for students as well to take
risk in their life so they can learn a new things and increase their knowledge to be successful in
both career and student life (HyseniDuraku and Hoxha., 2018. ). Taking a risk to achieve our
goals require the courage to face a fear of uncertainty. No matter what will be the outcome of
taking the risk, either way, we go through the process and become more confident in our life and
we can learn more things from the failure an we can get a power to keep working hard. Building
these skills can help it taking more risk and improve the chances of achieving future goals in the
students life and they can get success.
Additional habits that student need to Learn and importance of it in their life
There are Some additional habits that can be used by students and it is necessary for them
to implement this habit to be successful in their life. Additional habits such asMaking notes,
taking proper sleep, asking questions. these three habits can be adopted by the students to be
successful in their life and they can achieve goals and objectives they have set.
Notes making
Student should always create a notes during their learning in the class. Notes making
ability or habit can help them to recorder information for the long time and it will we useful
when they are needed (Naqvi and et.al., 2018.
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Mason., 2019). They can make a small notes during their classes and use it during the
exam times for the learning. it is not necessary that every time student will remember the
information that they are getting in the class. It’s making habit can help them too remember the
information for long time and if they forget any information then they can look at the notes and
remember immediately and it will also help them to get a good marks in their subjects and
become a brilliant students in a class. they should always carry a notebook in their bags so they
can not in there books about the everyday learning an take a successful step toward the higher
educational level.
Taking Proper sleep
It is necessary for the students to take proper sleep everyday and they should sleep
around 10:00 to 11:00 o’clock so they can wake up early in the morning and start their work.
taking a proper sleep everyday provide a proper sleep to the student which is necessary for them
so they will be always active in their class and they will be always focused toward their goals
and their life. it will also help to achieve success because they will be always active in daytime
and they will give their best in the task. it makes necessary for the students To take proper sleep
everyday. Most of these students feel sleepy during direct class it is because they don’t take
proper sleep at night and watch movies and use their phones (Villarreal, and Martinez., 2018).
This affect damn during the classes and they are not able to give concentration on their studies
which reflect on their mark sheets and they got lower marks in there all these subjects. this
makes necessary for the students to take proper sleep so they can be stay focused and learn
affectively during the class and get better marks in there all these objects.
Asking questions
Asking question is an good habit for the students and it is necessary for them to adopt this
habit in their daily life so they can learn more better and effectively to be successful student.
Asking a question means clearing it out during the learning which make more effective for the
students and they can achieve success and their higher educational level. students should ask a
questions To their teachers so they can get a proper and they can learn something new. habit of
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asking questions has to clarify the doubts during the learning and provide a proper an accurate
information to the students. if they do not ask questions then they are lack of proper information
which reflect on their market and they get lower marks.
Habit To Listen
Another important habit for this students is to listen carefully during their classes. they
should always focus toward they are learning and they should listen to their teachers what they
are telling and what they are trying to make them understand. this habit can create I ability to
understand the things easily an student can gain proper knowledge and information provided by
their teachers. it will help them to get success in their life and they can create opportunity for
themselves (Gormley and et.al., 2018. ). If they learn carefully and properly then student can the
understand The information effectively and they can use it for the gnu learning an increase there
level of knowledge. it will make them successful in their life and they can achieve what they
want to achieve in their life. it will make them successful in their life and they can achieve what
they want to achieve in their life.
Assessment 2
Discuss some strategies that students can use to improve their reading ability
Some students love reading, some dislike it. Most of children are drawn to reading as
materials that is engaging and understandable(Anwar, 2020). Eventually, Student have to read
materials that is not purpose of entertaining or simple to build own reading ability. Basically,
there are some common strategies that used by Student to improve their reading ability.
In context of reading ability, many student see reading as a chore, especially when it
relates to the suitable lesson plan, learning ability in complex information or data. These are not
only help to improve reading ability but also support for enhancing children’s passion to read by
incorporating activities. In order to focus on the building own reading skills to improve
engagement as well as comprehension.
Annotate and highlight text-
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When student have learnt about the reading ability which underline valuable information
or data as they can read. Have students are writing more notes on the pages as they have
improved own reading ability(Anwar, 2020). It help to develop own creative idea to understand
the sentence and improve comprehension. Many students can also write down more questions as
they can read to receive or gain more explanation on a new concept while defining as new word.
Personalize the content-
Many students can increase their own understanding by seeing how essential materials
help them to establish connection with own lifestyles. In this way, student can make as personal
connections with text by writing it down on the page. It also helping to the student when
comprehend the text by helping them to identify association with particular event or programs.
Practice problem solving-
Student can utilize information with real world problem solving skills in particular curriculum.
Each and every students have written out the solution to the problem and identify their
innovation or creative ideas in small groups(Anwar, 2020). Furthermore, it also added more
activities that can easily reinforce learning as well as comprehension through good sense as they
can read. This will help for students to read about the information and improve own reading
ability.
Teach goal Setting-
Students have needed to set up goals before they can read in good idea. Initially, it might
to be resolve any particular problem. Eventually, Student should be able to set up specific goals
and objective before reading particular information.
Assuming the visualization-
Some student have a good reader which may create as mental image, visualize a setting
event or program that help them to understand passage in a text. This is all about to examine the
actual meaning of text. This will help to student where they can improve reading ability or skills.
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Strategies that helped to students for improving their quality of written projects
It is necessary for the students life and higher educational level to have a knowledge of
writing a projects because it can help them to provide a good marks in their subject. projects
carry higher marks for the higher level students because they have to submit with the proper
structure an information. there are some strategies that can help students to improve the quality
of writing projects and get better marks in their subjects (Khan, and et.al., 2020). here are those
strategies
Structure
It is necessary for writing a project for the students, they should always use a proper
structure within their project. it means that they should start with the introduction of the project
then they should come to the main body and in the end they write a recommendation and
conclusion of bold report. it will provide a good impression in front of teachers and they will
give a better marks and good marks to the students. student can follow a proper Storey structure.
they can take more information from their teachers about the writing a project so they can make
according to their needs and their demands.
Aware of plagiarism
Writing a project is called academic writing where it is necessary for the students to be
aware of plagiarism because they use the information from the Internet published articles where
higher chances to get a plagiarism in the reports. They should always understand the information
from the Internet then they should right according to themselves or their own language. it is the
best way to avoid the risk of getting plagiarism in the reports.
Use resources and References
It is necessary for the student to use the Internet resources but they should always be
aware of giving up credit to the authors who have publicity books are information. If they are
using a secondary sources to write a project then they should always give credit to the authors or
they should also link a online reference so the teachers can find from where students have taken
the information and write the project (Daisy, and Nair., 2018.). It will also help them to get a
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good mark because they are giving a proper information of their sources and helping the teachers
too find the related information I currently and they can easily cheque the information.
Take the help of teachers
Sometimes students get troubled and understanding the information properly so they
should always ask to their Teachers so they can understand the information properly and write
down in the projects. quality of the project can be improved if the students are not having proper
knowledge so there should always take a learning lessons from their teachers so they can
improve their report writing or project writing and they can get a better marks in their projects
and they can be successful in their life because this skill will be helpful for them achieve higher
goals.Teachers are always happy to provide help to the students so they can easily take the help
of teacher and they can learn how to write a quality project.
Right relevant to the topic
It is always necessary for the student to be aware of their topic and they should always
right related to their topic. they should always ensure that that information is not going out of
they given topic and it should be related to it always. If they are writing information or collecting
the information related to their topic then they will increase the chances of getting higher marks
in there Project and they can successfully right project on the basis of their topic including the
proper resources.
Use the heading sub subheadings
It is necessary for the students during creating a project they should always use the
heading and subheadings to make the project a proper structured and well mannered. they should
create a Headings and sub headings so their project will look more improved and better
(Guerrasio and et.al., 2017). this technique can help students to improve their report writing and
they can get better marks in their subjects and they can show themselves as a brilliant student in
their class. they can take more information from their teachers about the writing a project so they
can make according to their needs and their demands.
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CONCLUSION
As per the report has beenselected the three habits that are important and necessary for
the students those habits were setting up goals, self discipline and risk taking. this report also has
been identified additional habits that students need and ithas been explained the important of
habits such as taking proper sleep, critical thinking etc. it will also discuss some strategies that
students can use to improve their reading abilities. in the end of this report has beenprovided
suggestions that washelpful to students to improve their quality of their written projects.
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Assign Summaries-
Student need to be used this strategy to summaries information or data what they have
read sound like requiring them to do lot of work. Sometimes, it emphasize that can reduce so
much time in studying, cramming for test. Essentially, this strategy will help for student to
summaries information and prepare for class discussion and oral presentation. In this way,
Student will help for improving their own reading ability.
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