Why_Students_Fail_College

Why Students Fail College Every fall a new class of wide-eyed innocent freshman start college full of high aspirations for a successful college career. Unfortunately, the hopes and dreams of over 380,000 are dashed when they fail out of college during their first year. One Internet site (http:\\www.ctl.ua.edu/CTLStudyAids/StudySkillsFlyers/GeneralTips/causesoffailure.htm) addresses this issue, and suggests several logical reasons for college failure. However, I believe students fail out of college primarily due to poor study habits, a lack of self-discipline, and an insufficient amount of positive motivation. To begin with, poor study habits destine students to initiate a chain reaction toward failure. Adequate study habits should have been acquired in high school; unfortunately, this is not always the case. While average high school students may not have to spend long hours in outside study to get good grades, college students must devote several hours each day to independent study in order to obtain the same goal. In high school, work tends to be assigned in small units with a due date in the imminent future. Additionally, there is usually an instructor who physically monitors weekly progress. On the other hand a college student may be assigned a multiple level project that is not due until the end of college, students, study, out, school, high, unfortunately, habits, student, self-discipline, motivation, freshman, failure, while, time, positive, poor, one, motivator, long, level, lack, insufficient, due, class, amount, year, until, success, spend, soon, several, reach, range, pressure, pleasing