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Studying with Friends

Explanation: While fun, sometimes you may lose out on quality study time by socializing.

Fix: Find one good study-buddy if you like group studying. Otherwise, "just say no" when everyone wants
to study together.

Too much Music

Explanation: Noise and music can interfere with the brain's abilite to comprehend new information. It
can also distract you from focusing on the material at hand.

Fix: If you need music in the background, find a specific type (usually classical) that works well for you.
Don't keep changing it around. When there are no lyrics, then it is easier to focus on the words on the
paper in your hand.

Bad Environment

Explanation: A poor study environment can ruin all quality time. If you are uncomfortable at a chair,
desk, room, the temperature is too cold or too hot, you will be unsuccessful studying.

Fix: Test out different sites until you find the best place for you. It may be the library, it may be your
room, your bed, your best friend's backhouse. Who knows? Find what works best for you and stick with
it.

Last Minute Cramming

Explanation: While many people swear by the cramming method, it is ultimately terrible at long term
knowledge retention and can cause undue stress.

Fix: Study for days up until the test. Or, if you do prefer cramming, try cramming two nights prior to the
exam so that the final night will not consist of stress. Rather it will be a night for review.

Eating

Explanation: Eating too much food during studying can disrupt retention of material. It can also take too
much time away. You may want to snack lightly during studying, but not eat enormous meals.

Fix: Keep a small bag of snacks by your study area. You won't have to leave the area just to pick up food
when you get hungry.

Drinking

Explanation: Drinking is a double-edged sword. Never drink alcohol while studying. However, it is
important to stay awake and hydrated.
Fix: Have a glass of water (or soda with caffeine) by your side. Be very careful not to spill it onto your
books and papers.

Working in your Bed

Explanation: While it may be comfortable, your bed can also sooth you to sleep instead of study.

Fix: Sit at a desk in your room instead of on your bed. Do not study on your bed late at night, as you will
be tempted to fall asleep.

Multi-Tasking

Explanation: Many people are able to multi-task, meaning they can do several different things at once.
This can be good for daily tasks. When it comes to studying, you may not retain as much material as if
you were to focus purely on one task.

Fix: Before a big exam, drop everything else for at least 24 hours and focus purely on the studying. When
it is complete, you can return to your multi-tasking.

Studying during a commute

Explanation: Many people enjoy reading on a train, bus, or car to work and school. These environments
are wonderful for light reads, but not necessarily for intense studying.

Fix: Use the commute (if you have one) for light studying, such as memorization, repetition, and review.
Do not use this time to learn new information.

Outside Stress

Explanation: It is inevitable to allow outside problems into your study world. They exist and cannot be
turned off light electricity.

Fix: There is no perfect way out of eliminating outside stress to a study area. The best advice we can give
you is to find a location that eliminates all superficial stress enough that will allow you even a few hours
to focus on writing, studying, reviewing.
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

This thesis was made possible because of the many people who have helped us realize this
project and to whom we owe a deep sense of gratitude.

Special thanks to Engr. Leonardo Surio, Dean of Environmental Design and Engineering, Baliuag
University, for helping us see the direction of our work and encouraged us to go on in spite of the many
difficulties we encountered while doing this study.

To Mrs. Leah Joson, our competent and very dedicated mentor who helped us make sense of our
work, generously corrected every detail of our draft and provided us with sound advises for our paper.

To all our professors for inculcating in us the knowledge and the values of perseverance and
hardwork.

To all our classmates for their continued encouragement, for their understanding and inspiration
that made us go on in our studies.

To all of them we expressed our sincerest thanks and appreciation for their valuable
contributions in making our task a little bit easier for us.

To God Almighty the source of everything for the manifold blessings He has bestowed on us and
all those who have helped us in this undertaking

Ian Jhefer Guevarra

Kimberly Manalili

Marianne Aleyn Manuel

Renz Louie Guillero

Chester

The Researchers
 INTRODUCTION

The concern of many educators is to see their students perform well in their classed and become
successful students. This will make teachers happy and parents become grateful when they know that
their students performing well in their classes.

Good students are not born but are made by constant and deliberate practice of Good study habits for
which there is no substitute. Thus in order to improve one’s academic performance it is essential to
improve our study habits as our desired outcome should be achieved. It is unfortunate that many
students consider themselves as they are not good learner and that little can be done to their
achievement.

According to (Pakistan Journal of social and clinical psychology 2011,Vol.9-21-26)

It is also defined as the devotion of time and attention to acquire information knowledge especially from
books or in other words it is the pursuit of academic knowledge by a detailed investigation of a subject
or situation(Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus of English Language 2003)

The term study habits is used for general approaches to learning skills for specific courses of study. There
are many theoretical works on the subject, including a vast number of popular books and websites.
Manuals are for students have been published since the 1940s. In the 1950s and 1960s college
instructors in the field of psychology and the study of education used research theory and experience
with their own students in writing manuals.

According to Marvin Cohn based on the advice for parents in his 1979 book Helping Your teen age
student on his experience as a researcher and head of a university reading clinic that tutored teenagers
and young adults. In 1986, when Dr. Gary Grubers’s Essnetial Guide to Test Taking for Kids was a first
published, the author had written 22 boks on taking standardized tets.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Study_skills). It has long been recognized that in the process of learning
study habits of the students play an important role in one’s academic performance many student fail not
because they lack ability, but because they do not have adequate study kills. Thus in order tom improve
their study habits without which desired outcomes cannot be achieved(S.V Kiester &Kiester,1992)

Academic performance is a complex student behavior and underlies several abilities like memory,
previous knowledge or aptitude as well as psychological factors such as motivation,
interests,temperaments or emoticons. Students getting higher marks had more effective study habits as
compard to students who had ineffective study habits and thus lagged behind in studies. Academic
performance can be simply defined as student self-motivation, self efficiency and power to cope with the
study environment with a primary goal of achieving excellent in school.
Academic performance is the outcome of education, it is the extent to which a student teacher or
institution has achieved their educational
goals(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academicachievement).Continous) improvement of learning were
learners develop and get used to specific circumstances adequately basing on their specific demands as
well as facilities existing in the circumstances which is describe as academic success (Ellis and
Worthington 1994)

In a study made from the viewpoint of the 40 freshmen engineering students we found out that the first
and foremost important factor of their good academic performance as part of the study habits is the
practice of organizing ones note in a notebook or folder, advantageous on the part of every student for it
will be very east to take review if lesson were well organized, though it may sound absurd, turning of
cellphone,television, and other devices a big never on the students,despire that they maybe a
disturbance on their studying still they practiced it as part of their study habits.

The implication of study habits may vary depending on the learner’s outlook in studies. The positive
relationship between good study habits and performances depends on learners attitude like academic
abilities of high performing students enable them to read more easily to find doing their homework less
burdensome and to enjoy talking to their parents about their success in school. Increased effort may or
may not be the most effective way to improve student performance.