Study Habits and Academics Achievement of Under Graduate Students in Aizawl City

Abstract

Academic achievement is the extent to which students accomplish the educational objectives. Student success and the quality of educational institution are mostly evaluated on the outcome of academic achievements. There is a strong pressure on student to score high mark since academic achievement is considered as one important factor for securing jobs in latter life. One of the most important factors affecting academic achievement is study habits. Good Study habits helps in promoting confidence, motivation, time management and resulting in achieving the educational objectives, while bad study habits put students on the disadvantage side resulting in failure, despair and drop out of the course. Regardless of the facts that College in Aizawl city impart good and uniform pattern of instruction to each and every students, student‟s performance is of wide range and large number of students who did good in higher secondary tends to fail in under graduate level, and therefore, the study try to resolve the relationship between academic achievements and study habits. The present study found that under graduate students have unsatisfactory study habits, both male and female from urban and rural shows similar pattern of study habits.