Study habits in pakistan

1.      Introducing the background to the problem

A reality in this world is that the quality of any nation depends upon the quality of its people. Quality of the citizens depends upon the quality of their education and quality of the education depends upon the quality of its learners. Quality of education depends upon the student’s academic performance or student’s achievements and only those students can perform well who have good study habits and attitude. Attitudes are predispositions which have developed through a long and complex process. Attitude is our overt behavior it includes verbal and non verbal and we can observe the attitude. Attitude means to ready for a certain type of activity. Attitude may be seized in any individual in stable or unstable, simple or compound and external or fundamental. Positive attitude toward study can play an important for the achievement of the students. Researches indicate that there is positive link between attitude and achievement of the students. Positive attitude develop commitment among the individuals.

 To provide the batter education and enhance education skills there is need to develop good study habits among the students. For developing the good study habits among the students there is need to some well organized guidance for the students in our educational institutes.

The national assessment of educational progress conduct a study to check the relationship between study habits and student performance the result shows that there is correlation between study habits and student performance. Many other studies also revealed that there is some relationship exists between study habits and students achievements. But it is also observed that due to some personal and emotional problem some students could not perform well in their academic career they suffer a lot due to pressure and due to use of inefficient learning strategies.  The students who have good study habits mean they have good assets. By using these assets man can attain mastery in areas of specialization. Good and actual study habits produce positive and good academic results while the bad and inefficient study habits leads to academic failure. There are many factors that will help the students to develop the good and efficient study habits. Some environmental factors also has great effects on the. It also observed that some parents send their children into the boarding school for developing the good study habits. Socioeconomic status of parents also affects a lot the study habits. Mostly students come from the economically poor and average families so their parents could not develop good study habits at their home. Due to low socioeconomic status these students face a lot of problems like emotional disturbance that is why they could not pay the proper attention the their study. This serious factor has cause badly damage the study habits of the students (tope, 2011).