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STUDY HABITS AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF THIRD YEAR STUDENTS OF SANTA ROSA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE
SCHOOL YEAR 2011-2012

A Thesis
Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School
Polytechnic University of the Philippines
Santa Rosa Campus

In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree
Master in Educational Management

By
JESUSA G. HABIG

August 2011

CHAPTER I
THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND
Introduction
Effective study skills are necessary for a high school student to excel academically. The student must develop these skills in order to retain information learned in the present for their future benefit. Study skills can be a combination of several techniques, including time management, note taking, self …show more content…

With Engineering Science and Education Program as its curriculum, the school is a lot different from ordinary public schools. The school offers subjects more than what is offered in ordinary public schools. It also has its own grading system that readily distinguishes students that are good in science, math, TLE and language.
The third year curriculum offers the following subjects: Filipino III (Noli Me Tangere), English III (American Literature), TLE III (Civil Technology), Math III (Advanced Algebra, Advanced Statistics, and Pre-Calculus), Science III (Chemistry, Physics, and Zoology), MAPEH III, Values Education III, Social Studies (World History), and Computer Literacy (Web Design). With its thirteen (13) subjects, third year students has to do a lot works and therefore must develop and improve study skills that will enable them to pass all the subjects.
In this study, junior SRSTHS students are the respondents. They were selected as the respondents because they are the batch that has gone through different political issues having past students, parents and teachers to question their qualification and quality and the admission where they went through because comparing with the last batches of third year students they are the first batch who got a very low average on the annual National Achievement test administered last March 2011 on their

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