Effective Goal Setting and Memory Improvement for University Students

This report delves into the significance of goal setting and memory enhancement for university students. It begins by emphasizing the importance of setting both short-term and long-term goals to provide focus, increase motivation, and guide students toward academic and career success. Short-term goals, such as achieving high grades and connecting with mentors, are discussed, alongside long-term goals like establishing a business or obtaining advanced degrees. The report then evaluates various methods to improve information retention, including associating new information with existing knowledge, reading aloud, focusing on difficult topics, and ensuring adequate sleep. These techniques are presented as valuable tools for students aiming to optimize their learning and achieve their academic aspirations. The report references several academic journals and books to support its findings.

Pursuing A vision
through academic
goals
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
1. Discuss why it is important to set goals. Identify some important short-term and long-term
goals for university students...................................................................................................3
2. Evaluate some methods students can use to improve how much they remember new
information.............................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................5
REFRENCES...................................................................................................................................6
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INTRODUCTION
For developing a successful personal as well as professional career an individual need to
do their higher education and for that they required numbers of particular skills, capabilities and
abilities because that will help them in developing effective decision (Brown and Lent, 2016).
Now a day competition is increasing day by day so in order to survive, an individual need learn
new skills as well as abilities. The primary aim of conducting respective report is to determine
importance of goal setting along with some important short as well as long term goals of
University students (Rego, Cunha and Polónia, 2017). Along with this, it will also consider
different techniques or method which can be used for improving remembering of students.
MAIN BODY
1. Discuss why it is important to set goals. Identify some important short-term and long-term
goals for university students.
Goal refers to idea or target of a person or company that is determined for attaining pre
determined objective in future. This is considered as similar term of aim as well as purpose
because in all individual develop plan for achieving desire result within a specific or allotted
time duration (Renko and et. al., 2015). Moreover, goal setting is considered as procedure that
define what an individual want to attain by doing hard work. Similarly in respect of academic,
goal setting is considered as target that is primed by a student for building an effective career as
well as attaining career goal and objective. Goal setting plays a major role in a students life
which can be determined through its importance which are mentioned below:-
 Provide focus to a student: By setting a goal, student able to be focus in their career
because it will help in developing or setting proper guideline for attaining desire goal
(Cunliffe and Scaratti, 2017). Moreover, it will also help in creating sense which direct
student to focus on their goal without wasting energy as well as source.
 Increase motivation level: Through the development of goal a student get motivated and
encourage to attain that goal for developing a successful future or career (Wu and et. al.,
2018). In addition to this, by creating goal student feel motivated and encouraged that
they want to attain particular goal and for that they develop proper blueprint.
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Along with this, for a university student it is essential to develop goal that can be in short
term or long term, this will based on requirement and situation. Below some examples along
with importance of short and long term goal are mentioned:-
Short term goal
There are various important short term goal which are developed by a student at the
University such as strategies for being connected with family, friends and lover one, get high
grade, planning for studying abroad, learn new things, develop connection with mentors and
many others (Etzkowitz and Zhou, 2017). Some of the main importance of short term goal in
respect of university students are given below:-
 It create feeling of immense satisfaction as well as it thrill for the achievement of goal
successfully.
 Through short term goal student able to generate excitement by attaining goals and
rewarding themselves for it.
Long term goal
A student who is studying at University need to develop long term goal so that they can
make effective career some of the important long term goal are establishing own business
venture, get graduate and master degree with high grade, get scholarship, become student of the
year and many others (DaviD, 2016). Along with this there are some importance of long term
goal such as:-
 Long term also impact positively on the student as compare to short term goals. This is so
because it is harder to achieve but it provide numbers of learning opportunities to
students.
2. Evaluate some methods students can use to improve how much they remember new
information.
A student may adopt numbers of techniques or methods which a University student may
adopt in order to improve their remembering or learning power of new information. From which
some methods are explained below:-
 Associate new information to factors with already know factor: For improving
learning or remembering power it is essential for student to always connect new
information with existing known information (Fleming and et. al., 2015). This is so
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because through it they able to dramatically increase recalling power in effective as well
as successful manner (Laurencelle, Scanlan and Brett, 2016).
 Do loud reading: It is determined that if a student do loud reading then there is high
chance that they will remember topic for long time duration (Karthigeyan and Nirmala,
2016). So in order to increase learning or remembering power students at University need
to read loud topics as well as it will more effective when student ready anytime before
going to bed at night.
 Pay more attention to hard topics: It is one of the most common method which can be
used by a student in order to improve their remembering (White, 2015). According to
that, student need to pay more attention to that topics which are difficult for them because
through that they able to understand it effectively and successfully.
 Get appropriate sleep: According to this students need to take proper rest or sleep
because that will help them in relaxing their mind which enhance remembering or
retaining power of students (Véron and Wolff, 2016).
These are main method or techniques which a student can adopt in order to enhance or
polish their remembering skills so that they can attain their desire goal and objective in
academics.
CONCLUSION
By conducting analysis of above mentioned topics it can be summarised, there are
numbers of skills, capabilities and abilities are required by a students when they come to
university because through that they able to conduct their work or practices in effective manner.
Those skills are time management, understanding, learning, adaptability, analysis, information
technology, research and many others skills. These all skills will help a students in attaining their
goal that can be short or long term in nature. In addition to this there are various methods or tool
which are used by a student in order to improve their remembering power such as reading out
loud, always be structured and organized, get proper sleep and many more.
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Books and Journals
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DaviD, S., 2016. Beyond goals: Effective strategies for coaching and mentoring. Routledge.
Etzkowitz, H. and Zhou, C., 2017. The triple helix: University–industry–government innovation
and entrepreneurship. Routledge.
Fleming, G. M. and et. al., 2015. A facilitated peer mentoring program for junior faculty to
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Wu, J. and et. al., 2018. Information and communications technologies for sustainable
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