Study skills can be defined as the skills that each student must have in order to study in an organized and codified way. They are also analogous with life skills which will help the student out in later various aspects of life. Anyone getting an education will acquire these skills one way or the other.
Here are a few generalized categories of study skills:
- Writing Skills: These include but are not limited to learning about vocabulary, spelling, proper grammar usage, and punctuation. Overall, these skills are an essential skill that you can learn in your studies, which will help you out a lot in your career irrespective of which sector it may deal with.
- Interpersonal Skills: These skills are used to interact and communicate and deal with other fellow humans. It may not seem like much, but even this is a subtle art that only a few can master and use for their career. Everything from speaking skills to listening skills fall under this category. Communication is learned, and how to conduct oneself when dealing with certain groups is learned. This is one way that a student can be prepared for the future work sector where he/she needs to deal with a lot of other humans. This teaches patience and virtue in dealing with others.
- Personal Skills: These are one of the most important categories of study skills which should be mastered. These are those skills required to mediate oneself, to control one’s stress, to deal with problems, and the ability to maintain self-confidence. These all can be summarized to be personal development skills.
Hence, in this way, such skills will definitely help the students to improve your studies. You may not have been paying much attention to these subtle details which you would have been learning from over the past few years of your studies, but school and college prims us for the working sector where we can manage our self without being dependent on others.
When you are learning something new, like a soft skill for speaking or writing a resume, you have to make sure to practice it till you have perfected it. Soft skills are important enough that they should not be ignored. Ignoring such skills would be ill-advised.
On a personal note,
I learned about soft skills and how to approach and talk to people in a professional setting during my 10th grade when I was supposed to talk to a few teachers from other schools. Initially, I was a bit intimidated about doing it, and that I felt like I was given a responsibility that was way out of my league.
But, eventually, I managed to conjure up the courage and started to talk to them and ask them a few questions for which answers I was requested to submit to my Principal. This way, I recognized the importance of having soft skills, knowing what to talk, what to say in response, how to greet, how to ask questions, etc., politely. You may not realize the importance of study skills and how they may benefit you in the future, but rest assured, everything you would be learning now will be put to the test, and it will help you out for the better.
Time management and organizational skills play an important role regardless of which sector you may choose to work in. These kinds of skills fall under personal development and it can be considered to be a measure of oneself.
Developing these skills will mean developing your career for sure.
