Lifestyle and Study Habits as Predictors of Academic Completion in NCM 101 Lecture

Education is a permanent process in life with the personality of being a human being (Singh, 2006). Singh also pointed out that education is necessary to understand the puzzle of life in order to live with it, that’s why there are numerous students coming in and out of school aiming for one thing, to acquire education. Education in a form of different courses per see is a means of having a good future (Singh, 2006).

Nowadays students would tend to do anything just to be enrolled in College and in this new era, nursing has become a favorite and in demand course. Both students and parents want this course as an easy access towards a convenient life. There are a lot of students who pursue nursing as their college course and here in Brokenshire College there are thousands of students enrolling yet from those, only hundreds have sustained and graduated. Nursing is a very great course, however, this is also a very difficult one. Nursing is an art which requires students to be creative thinkers to do nursing procedures in an artistic way. It is a science that requires students to be critical-thinkers in order to understand the different dimensions of the nursing profession. Nursing means sleepless nights to the nursing students, graveyard shifts, being bombarded with projects and requirements, stressful return demonstrations, exams and quizzes and to be enrolled in major subjects like NCM 101 lecture and in order to deal with it, one needs to be studious enough and to give up some leisure and pleasures in life which seems to be very hard to do.

An individual needs to run to be a good runner, he need to walk to be a good walker and he needs to swim to be a good swimmer, this is according to Singh (2006) in his book, “Education and Personality Development”. Singh (2006) further said that an action can be a habit if you frequently or regularly do it. The same thing should happen in studies, one must study everyday to make it habit. However, it seems that everything is going the opposite way, it seems that instead of improving, study habit of students is debilitating as well as lifestyle and now school failures became very prevalent.

The first semester of third year is a stressful semester because it is composed of three minor subjects, RLE duties and NCM101 lectures. Third year students find it hard to cope up with this though subjects and tiring and hectic schedules. A lot of junior students failed to pass the first semester and consequently they failed to enroll in next semester. A number of students failed in their minor subjects and NCM101 RLE but a large number of students failed to pass NCM101 lecture. Based on the data received from the registrar’s office, a total of 26 students failed to pass the said major subject and because of that the number of sections in third year was reduced from 17 to 16 sections. The number of failure in this major subject is quiet alarming compared to the failures in the other subjects of the first semester. That is the reason why the researchers only focus on the completion in NCM101 lecture. The researchers would like to know the reason behind these failures and to relate whether study habits and lifestyle has something to do with the completion or failure in NCM101 lecture. 

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