University Report: Academic Skills and Performance Analysis

This report provides a comprehensive overview of academic skills and their impact on performance. The report explores the importance of academic skills such as communication, time management, and critical thinking. It emphasizes the need to develop these skills to improve academic outcomes. The report discusses the use of SMART goals to enhance performance, detailing how specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-bound goals can lead to better results. It highlights the strategies for skill development, including presentations for communication, effective time management, active listening, critical analysis, and improving writing and vocabulary through reading. The conclusion reiterates the importance of these skills and their development for achieving academic goals and personal growth. The report references relevant academic literature to support its findings.

Academic Performance:
Academic Skills

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
The present report will be based on academic performance and skills. Academic skill may
be defined as an approach which is applied to learning in order to improve the performance and
get good grades. The report will also include how to develop academic skills as well as SMART
goals.
MAIN BODY
Academic study skills are those skills which are critical in order to be successful in
academics. It is very important for me to possess these skills in order to get good grades and
learn effectively. Most important feature of academic skills is that these skills are general not
specific to any subject. Moreover, I have to develop my own personal approach of academic
skills in order to learn and study(Honicke and Broadbent, 2016).
According to me, in order to be an effective university student a person must possess
certain academic skills such as good communication, time management, effective listening,
critical thinking, academic writing and vocabulary skills. Furthermore, apart from possessing
these skills, emphasis should be made on development of these skills as this will in turn lead to
improvement in the academic performance.
SMART goals are those goals which are specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and
time. Specific means to the point that is what exactly I want to achieve , measurable means the
ability to be measured that is what exactly I have achieved, attainable means whether the goal set
by me could be attained or not with the available resources, realistic means the goal should be
real not imaginary or fake and the last one time means specify the time limit within which goal
should be achieved.
My SMART goal is to top my university this year. This goal can be achieved if and only
if my present academic skills are improved. Hence, I am making great efforts to develop my
skills in order to improve my academic performance by undertaking various presentation so as to
improve by oral communication skills. On the other hand, I have started to manage my time
effectively by allocating time to each and every task separately so as to bring efficiency in
performance. Apart from this, I make lot of attempts to listen to tutors actively so as to grab as
much knowledge as I can. Not only this, I have even started to think critically so as to analyse
the facts in order to form a judgement(Ho and et.al., 2017). Furthermore, I am working on my
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writing skills which plays a huge role towards the achievement of goal and even I am reading
more and more novels so as to improve my vocabulary skills by learning new words.
Thus, this will not only help me in achieving by goal but will also contribute towards my
self improvement because when I will possess all these skill, it will automatically reflect in my
personality and would make me a better person.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been summarised that in order to achieve my goal I have to
work a lot towards improving my academic performance and emphasis would be given on
development of skills such as communication, vocabulary and time management through
presentations, reading novels and managing time effectively.
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REFERENCES
Books and journal
Ho, C.S.H. and et.al., 2017. Do different academic skills and IQ share the same genetic
factor?. In 47th Behavior Genetics Association Annual Meeting. Behavior Genetics Association.
Honicke, T. and Broadbent, J., 2016. The influence of academic self-efficacy on
academic performance: A systematic review. Educational Research Review. 17. pp.63-84.
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