Students who excel in high school do not always continue to excel in university. While high school grades may indicate academic ability, university introduces new challenges like independent time management and lack of external structure. Procrastination, poor time management, and lack of external motivation can negatively impact university performance for some high-achieving high school students. Factors like social media distractions, last-minute assignments, and stress can exacerbate procrastination and lower grades. Proper time allocation and preparation are important for academic success.
Students who excel in high school do not always continue to excel in university. While high school grades may indicate academic ability, university introduces new challenges like independent time management and lack of external structure. Procrastination, poor time management, and lack of external motivation can negatively impact university performance for some high-achieving high school students. Factors like social media distractions, last-minute assignments, and stress can exacerbate procrastination and lower grades. Proper time allocation and preparation are important for academic success.
Students who excel in high school do not always continue to excel in university. While high school grades may indicate academic ability, university introduces new challenges like independent time management and lack of external structure. Procrastination, poor time management, and lack of external motivation can negatively impact university performance for some high-achieving high school students. Factors like social media distractions, last-minute assignments, and stress can exacerbate procrastination and lower grades. Proper time allocation and preparation are important for academic success.
Students who excel in high school do not always continue to excel in university. While high school grades may indicate academic ability, university introduces new challenges like independent time management and lack of external structure. Procrastination, poor time management, and lack of external motivation can negatively impact university performance for some high-achieving high school students. Factors like social media distractions, last-minute assignments, and stress can exacerbate procrastination and lower grades. Proper time allocation and preparation are important for academic success.
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LITERATURE REVIEW
Being successful and get good grades in all subjects have always been a concern to many students. Generally, people believe that students, who excel in high school, will also excel in college or universities. However, how true is this to all. According to Enns et al.(2001), high school students who were once thought to be the best among the best based on high school academic result, were found to be average or at risk students at the university. Every semester, there are few of them who show a drop in academic performance and obtain a grade point average of less than 2.00, being placed under probation or terminated by the university due to academic difficulties. Aluja & Blanch (2004) suggested that students who obtained low academic result do not mean that they are not smart enough or have low academic ability. Students who are having difficulties in academic may face problems due to factors such as time management and the ability to cope at the university. At university, most of the time, students are supposed to be very independent. Unlike high school time where almost everything are prepared by either teachers or parents. In college or universities, most students are having culture shock and not able to handle and manage the time properly. There are many factors that lead students to failure in time management: Procrastination In college, it is most likely that everything is the students responsibility. Having so much distractions like social media, internet, video games, friends around and many more have led students to procrastinate many important things especially studying and completing their assignment on time. Procrastination means to put off doing something, especially out of habitual laziness, is a result of a cultivated habit, and it impacts everyone (Faisal Z. Miqdadi, et al., 2014). Most students who stay in dorms will be distracted with all sorts of entertainment and peer pressure that will eventually lead them to delay their assignments. To make it worst, those who rent a house with friends will be more relaxed since they will have plenty of time outside of the college area. They can do whatever they want without being controlled by anyone else. Moreover, many students said that they like to finish their assignments on the last minute because the time pressure will help them to develop ideas better. The question is, does it work for everyone? A lot of students will take plenty of time thinking about the topic of their assignments. Thus, if they decided to do the assignment on the last minute, they will be facing trouble in completing it properly. Plus, weaker students might need extra time to do some extra research. Furthermore, when he keeps delaying his work, stress will rise up and more pressure will be on the student, which will lead him to late submission and his grades will decrease (Faisal Z. Miqdadi, et al., 2014).
Poor time management
Poor time management behaviors such as improper allocation of time or last
minute preparation for examinations, have been frequently been discussed as one of the prime source of poor academic performance (Gall, 1988; Longman & Atkinson, 1988). It is quite a common practice that students become overcome with feelings that there is not sufficient time to perform their all tasks adequately. It is mostly because of inefficiency in time management.
Lack of external motivation
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