““How to do well in How to do well in academics” academics”

Why study?Why study?

• Enhance employability skillsEnhance employability skills

• Preparation for Success in Careers Preparation for Success in Careers (academic skills, technical skills, (academic skills, technical skills, employability skills)employability skills)

The 3 Key The 3 Key success success factors factors

ConfidencConfidencee

EffortEffortSkillsSkills

The KEY SKILL SETSThe KEY SKILL SETS

Learning SkillsLearning Skills

Social SkillsSocial Skills

Self-Management SkillsSelf-Management Skills

Learning SkillsLearning Skills

• Setting academic goalsSetting academic goals

– Planning the course coverage, effective time allocation Planning the course coverage, effective time allocation and fare well in examination and achieve superior and fare well in examination and achieve superior grades/marks grades/marks

• Memory skillsMemory skills– Semantic techniques to recall through associationSemantic techniques to recall through association

• Performing under pressure: Performing under pressure: – Coping with stress, managing time and maintain Coping with stress, managing time and maintain

composure even in adverse circumstances.composure even in adverse circumstances.

Social SkillsSocial Skills

• Listening Listening

o Good listening helps to understand lessons better and retain Good listening helps to understand lessons better and retain well.well.

o It is social skill that improves your inter personal relations It is social skill that improves your inter personal relations and improves your leadership skillsand improves your leadership skills

• Peer CoachingPeer Coaching

– If you teach others what you know, you become more If you teach others what you know, you become more proficient. You are accepted better in social circles.proficient. You are accepted better in social circles.

• EmpathyEmpathy

– Putting yourself in other persons shoe makes you understand Putting yourself in other persons shoe makes you understand better.better.

Self Management SkillsSelf Management Skills

• Using feedbackUsing feedback

• Openness to feedback helps you to look at your Openness to feedback helps you to look at your strengths and weakness and develop personal action strengths and weakness and develop personal action plan for your growthplan for your growth

• Performance/anxiety coping skillsPerformance/anxiety coping skills– Having control over emotions and curbing negative Having control over emotions and curbing negative

emotions improves your mental strength. emotions improves your mental strength. – Anger management skillsAnger management skills– Imparts an ability to stay calm and composed in crises Imparts an ability to stay calm and composed in crises

situations.situations.

Positive self talkPositive self talk– Helps you to build your confidenceHelps you to build your confidence

ActivityActivity

• Self Administered QuestionnaireSelf Administered Questionnaire

Personal Effectiveness Inventory

Mastering academics- Mastering academics- StrategiesStrategies

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Monitoring Your Monitoring Your GradesGrades

• Monitor your progress of Monitor your progress of your grades against set your grades against set goals and initiate corrective goals and initiate corrective action if warranted.action if warranted.

Goal Setting and Progress Goal Setting and Progress MonitoringMonitoring

Identify Identify strengths/successes and strengths/successes and areas you want to areas you want to improve.improve.

Practice goal setting and Practice goal setting and action planning around action planning around three important areas: three important areas:

academic skillsacademic skillssocial skillssocial skillsself-management self-management

skills.skills.

Using sensory organsUsing sensory organs• Learn how to listen with ears, Learn how to listen with ears,

see with eyes and feel with see with eyes and feel with heart.heart.

• Share your successes and Share your successes and your peers and recognize your peers and recognize their success.their success.

• Use brain storming Use brain storming techniques enhance creativity techniques enhance creativity and innovative approach to and innovative approach to solving problems. solving problems.

Improving MemoryImproving Memory

The mind has the ability to The mind has the ability to think in terms of pictures.think in terms of pictures.

The more exaggerated The more exaggerated the picture, the easier it is the picture, the easier it is to remember. to remember.

Linking pictures Linking pictures maximizesmaximizesretentionretention

Performing Under Performing Under PressurePressure

• Some times you can pick out Some times you can pick out the important information and the important information and use solid study strategies but use solid study strategies but become anxious when then become anxious when then time comes to show what you time comes to show what you know.know.

• Develop the skill to control Develop the skill to control emotions that helps you to emotions that helps you to perform under pressureperform under pressure..

Managing AnxietyManaging Anxiety

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• Calm you nerves when you Calm you nerves when you

mind is agitatedmind is agitated

• Breath easy and mentally Breath easy and mentally visualize scenes that soothe visualize scenes that soothe your nervesyour nerves

• Positive Self TalkPositive Self Talk

• Listen to soothing TunesListen to soothing Tunes

Positive self talkPositive self talk

• Positive self talk and Positive self talk and encouraging statements encouraging statements help you to keep on track help you to keep on track when faced with anxiety when faced with anxiety and pressure. and pressure.

• Some degree of anxiety Some degree of anxiety and pressure are to be and pressure are to be expected as you are asked expected as you are asked to perform, but it should to perform, but it should not become overwhelming not become overwhelming to loose focus of your to loose focus of your goals.goals.

The four critical wordsThe four critical words

• For managing pressure start For managing pressure start imagining being successful.imagining being successful.

• Increased practice results in Increased practice results in improved skills. improved skills.

• If goals are not met, you If goals are not met, you need to identify the reasons need to identify the reasons for failure and start afresh. for failure and start afresh.

• Celebrate even small Celebrate even small improvements to continue improvements to continue trying.trying.

Reasons why students don’t do Reasons why students don’t do well in academicswell in academics

• Poor time management, in general;Poor time management, in general;

• Too many work hours;Too many work hours;

• Too many distractions (socializing, partying);Too many distractions (socializing, partying);

• Too little sleep;Too little sleep;

• Too many subjects;Too many subjects;

• Underdeveloped study skills/habits;Underdeveloped study skills/habits;

• Lack of understanding of how much time studying Lack of understanding of how much time studying will take will take

• Lack of understanding of the skills required to Lack of understanding of the skills required to successfulsuccessful

• The main difference between The main difference between students who get top marks and students who get top marks and those who don’t is not intelligence-those who don’t is not intelligence-

but the habits they adopt and the but the habits they adopt and the choices they make.choices they make.

Personal Action PlanPersonal Action Plan