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Reasons why students fail.


Every student should be in school to excel. Parents are sometimes taken by surprise when their children fail to perform well or even perform very poorly in the academics. It is best to understand why this can sometimes happen.

 1. Technology - Faster and easier way in research studies and even in communication, less pressures and more recreation time for students. They have already all the necessity that a student can have because of the rising technology known as “INFORMATION ERA”. In spite of these advantages, it also brings laziness when not used properly. Gadgets are essential like cellphone but using it while on the class discussion gives another contradiction with its benefits.
2. Society Interference - Sometimes the youth will prefer mostly for mingling and shopping rather than group studies or educational training. As a result, the quality of education from the minds of the students become uninteresting and fluctuating affecting their scholastic foundation causing their grades to fail.
3. Lack of motivation - Another reason behind a student's academic failure is the lack of parental guidance and moral support. They lost their enthusiasm and willingness to study. They become fainted and rude sometimes, they become refugee seeking for home and most of all they sometimes attempt suicides because of being restless and hopeless.
4. Peer pressure - also affects student's performance, they become bad influence to do devilish scheme and become lazy in studying because they intended to wander around rather than schooling which makes them feel boredom.
5. Stress – this is also a factor which declines students mind. They are in the school but they are mentally absent. This are caused by poor coping in their everyday problems, they don't get used to it so there attention are suppressed.
6. Sleep deprivation and expectations – we need to take a sleep 7-10 hours every day as what prescribed by a doctor to regain and build energy for another day. But when this will not be complied human system may dysfunction according on how it works. Because any less or too much may lead to imbalance causing for us to concentrate in every task.
7. Attitudes and behaviors – it takes a bigger role in our personality, the more we think positive and courageous the more we achieve, but when a student is a pessimistic person all the bad things happen to him makes him more down with less achievements.
8. Poor study skills – it is the inability to prioritize and using course materials in a way that produces a low comprehension -per-time rate. Lack of self-management in and confidence to learn more.  No person in this world are born with the knowledge needed in his survival, everything is learned through enrichment in his chosen course.
9. Poor time management – This is one of the most reasons why students fail, it's because they can't use their spare time wisely. They can't manage their time accordingly to their academic activities.
In the end, it lies in our hands how our education prospers from one another. It depends on us because we are the architects of our future to make it profitable. Let us balanced pleasure and studies because in the nutshell, we are the farmer who will harvest what we sowed in our lives, so act and think before time runs out!

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for sharing this article.

    We agree with your thoughts on topic #3. We have recently conducted research and found that one of the three main reasons students fail in school is because of lack of engagement from parents. This relates to the student not participating in class or doing homework because it is not encouraged at home.

    If we want students to do well in school, good parents need to be actively involved in the education of students.

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