...Study habits are hard to deal with and some students fail because of it. But of course, it was their fault why they fail. They prioritize their happiness rather than their studies. Students are called procrastinators. They tend to do things in a short span of time. It's either a day or hours before the deadline or at the time of deadline and that is what you called cramming. They prioritize on things which make them happy then cram the things they really need to do. Some of the students said that, their brain works properly when they cram because they worked faster than they usually do. That's true because I also had that kind of experience though there are some cases in which cramming doesn't work that well. In cases, like reviewing before the exams. Some students do some 'a-minute-review-before-the-test' thingy. They like it because they think they can answer the test when all of the things that they review are still fresh in there mind. On the contrary, some students fail on that thing. Like they'll memorize it for now then forgot it after a minute or so on. That's because their brains are not used in that kind of thing. And that's the reason why they fail. You can change those kind of habit but not in a simple way. You know, 'old habits, die hard'. But if you have the will, you can change it. It's just all about knowing what's your priorities, time management and having the will of changing your...
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...there are multiple reasons for why 58% of students who took the SAT are deemed not college ready. These reasons may include; students do not study properly, students do not do their homework as regularly, and many kids are not as mature as the grade they are in should portray. I believe that a big reason for this conclusion is that students do not study properly. This may be caused by students not knowing the proper steps to studying. It is crucial for students to study days before a test, as well as throughout the days leading up to it. Now a days, most students just study the night before a test because they can get away with it in high school. But, in college it is totally different. Most students are going to have to learn that they are going to need to study well in advance of the test in hopes of doing well on it. So, on the SAT it may be showing that students hadn’t really studied well for it which may be why many are being deemed as not ready for college. Another reason for this could be that students don’t do their homework everyday. Many students want...
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...Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Years ago, students used to go home right after their class ended so they do their school works at house. They can still manage to do other stuffs like playing with their friends or to hang out. But now, students used to go home late for they need to stay at school after their respective classes to finish other requirements. And as they reach their home, they still face other school works. Having a mountain-like tasks given by the subject teachers leads the students to a decision wherein they need to have an overtime to meet all their requirements for that day. most of the time, the time they spent on staying is not enough. there still a lot of school works that needs to be finished so as they reach their house, they were ended up still awake up to 2 am. in the following day that leads them to be sleepy and lack of focus in class discussions the same day. As the teacher enters the room and greet her students, they will notice that her students already look like a zombie because of their huge eye bags and they will look like they were very tired on the way they response to the teacher's greetings. According to some alumni students of Casimiro A. Ynares Sr. Memorial National High School, they already have been experienced that thing. They both need those extracurricular activities and the academic ones so as a sacrifice, they go home late to do those things. They always start to cram from their house up to the next day as they enter the room for...
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...habits of students then from now* B. Significance of the Study With the advancing technologies around, there are numerous things an individual, particularly a student could do; various sports activities, watching videos, playing online games, social networking sites, just exploring the vastness of the internet. Just by these things, a student already becomes occupied losing focus on his supposed priority – studying. Most students have been gripped by these activities taking their time for granted, which results on having poor study habits and having an unwanted output of work. The researchers aim to motivate students to improve their study habits, as well as to give teachers further ideas on how they could help students perform better academically and for the parents, playing a vital role for providing education to their children, to understand and help their child get through these habits. C. Statement of the problem Specifically, this study aims to answer the following questions: 1. Do you like to study? 1.1 Yes 1.2 No 2. Going back from home to school, what is the first thing that you do? 2.1 Read textbooks and/or do homework 2.2 Log on to social networking sites 2.3 Sleep 2.4 Watch TV or play games 2.5 Household chores 3. What do you do a week before the exams/deadline of passing a project? 3.1 Relax 3.2 Wait for 3 days before starting 3.3 Panic 3.4 Start reviewing/ working 3.5 Polish the finished project 4. Do you procrastinate (cram)? 4. 1 Yes...
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...“THE EFFECTS OF STUDY HABITS ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF FIRST YEAR EDUCATION STUDENTS” A requirement for the completion of English 2 Writing in discipline Submitted to Dorothy T. Pila Instructor Submitted by Alfredo B. Paghasian Jr. Gener Michael Barbarona Students January 22, 2016 Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Background & Rationale/Purpose 1.2 Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Study habits are the most influential factor that contributes to a positive or negative academic performance of a student. Habits refer to an act that is repetitively done by a certain person, while study means to gain knowledge and information. Thus, study habits are habitual actions that are done in order to gain learning. And as asserted by Bruce Tuchman(1975) that performance is used to label the observable manifestations of knowledge, skill, concepts and understanding an idea. Hence, it indicates the students’ ability, mastery of content, skills in applying, learned knowledge to a particular situation. In the areas of learning mentioned, many students fail and perform poorly for they lack of good study habits. In addition, time management is an important factor when it comes to studying. One must consider his/hers studies to be important enough to create a time and place where...
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...UGEA Chinese Society Chin Tse Kai 1155056381 Dr. Hua Guo Case Study 1. Introduction Maotanchang High School is a cramming school located in Maotanchang town, Lu An city of Anhui Province in China. Despite the prosperous cities like Shanghai or Guangzhou near the coast, Maotanchang town is in the middle of China, inside foot hills of Anhui. Maotanchang town did not enjoy the economic growth of China’s opening economy, but instead, it specialised in becoming a Gaokao cramming town. 2. What make Maotanchang a cram city? 2.1 Inland Cities’ Inherited Disadvantages In 1979, Deng Xiaoping established several economic special zones in coastline cities of China, including Shanghai and Guangzhou. These cities, has become some of the richest cities in China. And their open economy and advantageous geographic position plays a big role. But small towns like Maotanchang didn’t enjoy much of the opening of China economy. According to The Economists, Anhui’s GDP is only equivalent to Pakistan, while Shanghai’s GDP is equivalent to Finland. The poor location Anhui province is in and the lack of labour, infrastructure facilities made these inland cities hard to enjoy the same growth as coastal cities. Coastal cities contributes XX% of Chinese GDP in 2014, however inland cities only represent XX percent. ...
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...Why engineering students shift to other program? Objectives 1. To identify the factors why students shift to other program 2. To evaluate the main reason why engineering students shift 3. To propose a plan of action to the university to lessen the number of shifters INTRODUCTION One of the major factors that have been affecting college students to graduate earlier is the shifting of courses of the college student, especially after the first to second year of experience of the student’s studies. Shifting of course is a way of college students to change their chosen program to another that may have been caused by many incompatibility of the student to compete in that specific chosen program. Shifting refers to a transfer from one program to another of the same level. A level may refer to baccalaureate, masters, doctoral, or diploma/certificate”. In some college student’s perspective about shifting courses, is that shifting courses was caused by rejection of the problems of the student in that specific program. In shifting courses there are four possible reasons why a college student demands to shift their course. The first possible reason in shifting course is the problem with the student’s course itself, if the course does not meet the demands of a student, it may cause failure or boredom to the student that makes them change course. Second reason is the problem with the place or university, if the place causes uncomfortable aura to the students, then it may cause unhappiness...
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...have had yearlong schooling, but recently, some countries have changed to year round schooling. Year round schools are definitely better than having a long period of school year then having a two months summer break. It is better in the following ways: students will not forget what they learned the previous year, students and teachers can have vacations in different seasons, and students will not start gaining bad habits over the summer vacation. The first reason for why year round schooling is way better is because students will not forget what they had learned so easily. One example is that during a summer break, students tends to throw their books away and never opens it until school starts again. In addition, if a students do not review their learning or even look at their textbooks for two months or more, they surely will forget what they had learned, but if they only had a week or two of a break, they can still relax and rest, while still would be able to comprehend what they have been taught. The best part about going to year round schooling is that when students come back from their break, teachers do not have to restlessly cram everything that the students had learned last year into a one month review. Most students and some parents, usually argues that when going to year round schooling, they cannot have a long enough period amount of time to fully vacation, relax, and take their mind off of whatever that is bothering them. Well, of course you can still go on vacation...
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...certain ethnic background. Through community building and diversity, stereotypes can be put to rest so that a new understanding of who individuals really are can begin and success can be achieved. There is a common stereotype that Asian Americans are naturally smarter than everyone else on this earth. While some Asian Americans may be smarter than the average human, it is more than likely not a naturally occurring phenomenon. Asian Americans do not support or believe in the idea of intrinsic, or natural, intelligence. What they do believe in is that “constant practice of test-taking will improve the scores of whoever commits to it (535).” It’s not about natural ability, rather the amount of effort one is willing to put into a goal. Asian Americans are not born more intrinsically intelligent than anyone of any other race. All Asian Americans wish to do is better their lives and will give tremendous effort into attempting this. One example of this effort is through the use of “cram schools.” These institutions “drill students in test preparation after school, on weekends, and during summer...
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...Centre International Education Students from Studying The ways people learn differ from child to child. As what is already stated, we all have our different ways in studying as long as we are comfortable and we improve; study habits seem to show differences in how children become skilled at and how earnest that are about learning. It may be something that they are used to and have adapted to throughout their school years. It can be good and bad ones. Good study habits include being orderly, keeping good notes, reading your textbook, listening in class, and doing your work every day while poor study habits include skipping class, not doing your work, watching TV or playing video games instead of studying, sleeping late and losing your work loads. For students of any age, studying is the way of life, with tests and exams commonly raising stress levels and daily workloads. Many students sleep late because of the study load that the school provides. Stress also depends on what type of curriculum there is in your school. Not really a majority of students adopt in a very organized and calm approach and study consistently through the year, students are able to study effortlessly often accompanied by a lack of slumber, exercise, fresh air, the stress of worrying study habits, and overall cognitive functioning. On the other side, other students tend to leave things more or less to the last moment and then panic and try and cram in the work. Cramming your work...
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...studying mathematics. These have been gathered from a number of sources (texts, websites, personal experience) over a number of years. General: * Keys to success include desire and discipline. You must want success and you must discipline yourself to do what it takes to get success. * Keys to success include motivation and time management (rewording of the above). * Everything that you learn increases your value. * If you need help, get it! Find out what resources are available to you. * Math is cummulative - what you learn today will be used tomorrow. * Take responsibility for your education. * No two students will learn in the same way. Discover what it takes for you to learn math. * Don't expect to understand every new topic the first time you see it. Learning mathematics takes time, patience and repetition. "All mathematics is easy, once you understand it." * You must practice speaking a foreign language regularly in order to become fluent in it. Mathematics is like a language - you must practice it regularly and become fluent. * If you memorize procedures without understanding, you will soon forget the procedures. * Being a full time student is a full time job. For each in class hour of instruction, two to four hours of studying (including doing homework) should be completed. * Account for how you spend every half hour of your time for one entire week. Add up your totals for...
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...My theory for this project was that students that access social media at least 4 times a day have lower grades than students that access social media less than 2 times a day. I used this because I realize that social media can be a major hinderance and can distract students from completing their schoolwork. I am a prime example of this. Before I created any social networking accounts, I had straight A’s and had much more free time than I knew what to do with. Now however, I use social media frequently and it has eaten up my time and concentration. I began to complete my homework at school in the mornings before classes because I concluded that talking to my “friends” and seeing who was posting what was more important than my schoolwork. This behavior began to cause my grades to plummet. Realizing what I was doing to myself, I decided to make a change. I do not check my social networking accounts as much as I used to and my grades reflect it! After long contemplation, I realized that I couldn’t be the only one that had this horrible habit of putting social media before education; someone else absolutely had to do it as well. I had many questions in my head about why such a thing would happen with others. “Do they do it because of boredom? What if they focus more on it because their friends do?” After testing 30 students at Frederick Douglass High School with the amount of time spent on social media as the independent variable and the condition of the grades as a result...
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...raising their knowledge on a given subject. Others stay up all night in hopes of cramming the information in and these people believe this is the best way to gain and retain knowledge. We will be testing which is better, to stay up at cram for an exam the night before or to study long term. We will attempt to quantify which method is better by examining the end result, the grades achieved on these exams. Staying Up Teens who stay up late at night cramming are more likely to have academic problems the following day doing poorly on the test they studied for” finds a new study by, (University of California, Los Angeles UCLA, 2012). This staying up late tends to actually become a problem over time as students begin to give up more sleep over time. This lack of sleep has compounding effect and long-term implications. Students were asked to keep diaries of sleep patterns and test, quiz, and retention performance over fourteen days. The data showed that kids who didn’t get enough sleep were not only more likely to have problems understanding during class, a result the researchers had expected, but they were also more likely to do badly on tests, quizzes and homework (University of California, Los Angeles UCLA, 2012). Even more detrimental students lost an average of forty-one minutes of sleep each night from the time they entered ninth grade until high school graduation. This loss of sleep over the years is detrimental and begins to effect concentration, cognitive ability, and...
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...Manshack 1 Linda Manshack Instructor L. McCary English 105 March 15, 2011 How to become an Effective Student Every year many students enter college with dreams and aspirations of becoming an effective student. However, not all students have a full understanding of the challenges that it takes to meet this goal. Many often ask themselves, “What does it take to become an effective student?” There are many answers to that question, but the problem is that most students do not understand how important time management and proper study skills are to a college career. With social activities, friends, and family as outside influences on a schedule, students are unable to properly utilize their time and often find themselves overwhelmed by the workload. Others have not developed the study skills that they need in order to master the classes. Practicing daily habits of success is an important building block for any student; therefore, to be an effective student one must have time management and proper study skills. Mastering the art of time management is easier said than done. Every student is handed a syllabus in class, it is important to read this since it lists the dates for when the quizzes, exams, and homework assignments are due. Taking an organizer and writing down all important dates will help in planning ahead and planning your workload. If there are many assignments that are clustered up then prioritize them and set aside...
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...The Effects of Drugs and Alcohol on Academic Life Drug and alcohol use on college campuses is universal. Students articulate many reasons why they do it, but most neglect to consider both the long-term consequences of their actions. How wide-spread is drug and alcohol abuse? Teenagers today admit to extensive experimentation. According to one study, 90 percent of teens said that they have used alcohol, over 50 percent have used marijuana, 17 percent have used cocaine and 13 percent have used some form of hallucinogenic drug. Drug use has been classified as a major problem of students as early as in the fourth grade. Consequently, it is no surprise that substance use is prolific on college campuses, where many young adults are free from adult supervision for the first time in their lives. Alcohol use accounts for over 100,00 death per year in this country. It contributes to over 50 percent of all suicides, violent crimes, emergency room admissions, traffic accidents, substandard job performances and industrial accidents, and 80 percent of all domestic violence incidents. You may falsely believe that your are “safe” because you live in the small community of Melbourne and that these issues don’t really affect you. To be more specific, how can drug and alcohol abuse affect a healthy young college student like you? The statistics are staggering: • Drug and alcohol abuse is the leading cause of death for people between the ages of 15 and 24 • 95% of all college campus violence...
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