Poor Study Habits: Hindrance to Academic Excellence

It is common to think that school success is only related to IQ, however, that is not totally true because there are other factors that strongly related to students’ academic performance. According to a study published in 2011 by “The journal of school health” students who had a balance and nutritious diet regularly, scored higher on tests. In addition, an improvement of 6.8% in academic performance was observed (qtd in “Healthy vs unhealthy food”). Furthermore, Dr. Philip Alapat, medical director, states that “any prolonged sleep deprivation will affect, your mood, energy level, and ability to concentrate, focus and learn, which directly affects your academic performance.” (qtd in “Sleep deprivation”)

In the book, How to Get A’s in College: Hundreds of Student Tested Tips, college students share their positive and negative study habits and tricks they use to make the most of their study time.

Literature review in relation to the findings. Some findings of this study replicate what has already been revealed in the literature, with regards to the topic of the undergraduate

Study habits and techniques were non-existence for me in high school. I never did anything but look over notes or previous work. The only time I remembered studying was around the time we took our standardized testing. Looking back, I can’t recall ever learning any study skills or strategies. It may have been that school for me was easy and I had no reason to study. Or I was not challenged academically to have to study. Nonetheless, soon I would find out the difficulties of navigating college courses without effective study skills and habits. I fell behind in college early because of my inability of how to study and what to study for. Just like me, there are many more students that have never been taught effective study skills and habits

To conclude, in order to attain a sound education a student must be able to effectively develop study skills as these give a solid base to learning. They also develop a student's ability to think critically and communicate in an effective manner. Whilst these are important I think it is also important to recognise that environment and geographical envirnmemt / sexual orientation also play an important part in the argument above.

A causal study done by Crede and Kuncel (2016) showed that study habits have a strong relation to academic performance. Researchers used the Survey of Study Habits and Attitudes (SHSA), the Learning and Study Skills

Studying is a task that seemed to be easy for me, but the quiz revealed I have major holes in my strategy. I scored a 31 out of 50 on the study habits quiz, this revealed that many things can be improved upon. The most beneficial study habit that I can obtain is learning how to study differently for every test. I can use models to study instead of reading a textbook, using models would grab my attention and engulf me into the content I am trying to learn. Receiving help from an instructor is something I rarely do. If I am struggling with a topic I need to contact my teacher instead of googling information about the subject. Using the internet to find information is dangerous because it does not always concur with the information my teacher

Komarraju (2011) had few limitations during this experiment. The participants that was in this study only gave self-reported GPA’s. In the future, researches need to always obtain the participants grades through school records. This will add more reliability to the information that is used. Also, there

In my writing class, I have accomplished the learning outcomes stated in the syllabus. My essays, “Discourse Community” and “Analysis of Study Habits”, both demonstrate my ability to “analyze conventions and concepts of genre within academic disciplines and outside of the university”. In addtion, my “Analysis of Study Habit” shows that my ability to “Paraphrase, summarize, and/or quote scholarly sources to engage academic audiences”. In "Discourse Community", I am able to use writing to analyze the community that I belong to in real life. I analyze the work that my commmunity produce and the six aspects that define a discourse community. Though this project, I am able discover many aspects of my programming group that I have never considered.

College students have to balance work, family, and college activists and any delaying behavior from within can cause an unbalance. This behavior is called procrastinating and it can lead to problems in many areas of a student’s life. College students are the worst hit by this type of behavior because they have many different activities to focus on instead of studying. These activities can cause students to study when they have time which often is usually too short amount of time. There is a time and place to relax and enjoy life, but if students focus on playing around instead of getting their assignments done, college life will be stressful.

Zeenath and Ocrullo (2012) indicated that university students procrastinate because of its affective consequences. External factors, such as peer influence and coping strategies, surrounding them also contribute to this. Furthermore, the way of teaching of the professors also affects the performance of the students toward the tasks given to them. Procrastination is the reason behind the poor academic performance and unhealthy lifestyle of the students. However, even if the individuals receive negative consequences, they still choose to

Our live chat session today was on time and stress management. Overall the session was really helpful in providing tools and ideas to manage both time and stress. With everyone’s situation being different, your overall message was to find what works for each one of us individually. I found the spreadsheet to be very useful and will most likely be implementing that into a Google Spreadsheet for me to take on-the-go and that will enable me to add scripting to send reminders to my phone throughout the day.

In fact, almost all of existing environmental and personal factors are variable of academic performance. However, at this point in time, the researchers would like to investigate the possible relationship of study habits and the factors affecting it to the academic performance of 1st year BSA students. The investigation on this area thus becomes a real and compelling motivation for the researchers to conduct this study.

As a researcher, the main purpose of the study is to know the factors that affect the academic

These latter two factors account for only a minor part of overall learning. Study is a complex operation, and educators tend to regard study habits and attitudes as important variables in helping to determine academic success or failure. Efficient learning depends upon the development of efficient study habits and skills (Jammuar K.K., 1973). It means study habits are related to scholastic achievement. According to Thomson, M. E. (1976) for better academic achievement good study habits are essential.