A CROSS-SECTIONAL SURVEY ON STUDY HABITS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Abstract

Every institution or university has its own culture of study and the students also have different study habits from others. The learners adopt study habits in order to get command over their areas of specialization. The basic purpose of this research work was to conduct a cross-sectional survey on study habits of students studying in different universities and ithelped to provide necessary information about the relationships found among different factors of study habits,difference by gender and universities.All post graduate level students and university students in Lahore was the population and Simple random sampling technique was used to select a sample of students. Data were collected by using a self-developed scale about study habit. Results revealed that there was no significant mean
difference in the study habits of male and female students, but there was significantdifference in the study habits of the inter-university students.Teachers should encourage students to use of resources and trained them how to use available resources.