Grades are like a rollercoaster ride in a theme park called school. Throughout my life this has been the perfect analogy to describe my academics, I was never able to sustain good grades or a good work habit. It’s a frustrating process that has drastically plagued my life for years. I was never able to focus on the other responsibilities that were also there besides just doing schoolwork like keeping track of due dates, paying attention in class and even showing up to class. My overall goal this semester is to correct my study habits and maintain good grades but in order to do so a college student like myself should form a good study habit or schedule, attend classes no matter what and turn in homework on time. With hard work, discipline and focusing on …show more content…
Study habits includes a variety of task like: time management, setting achievable goals, choosing a correct study environment, using great note-taking strategies, choosing main ideas and most important, organization (Stinebrickner, 2006). Knowing when to study and what to study is a vital correlation to your grades. Picking a time and place to go to daily to study creates a good academic habit which gets you a foot in the door to being successful. Going over materials constantly on a daily basis moves material learned from short-term to long-term memory making it easy to confidently regurgitate information when needed be (Abrahams). In this day and age college students can use all sorts or methods of study, technology has been the most helpful in the younger generations, giving them the ability to pull up resources on their mobile devices and instantly tap into a lesson. Creating a study habit was a key step in me maintaining good grades over the course of the semester, going over lessons and material on a constant basis locked valuable test information in my brain for external