Critically reflect on and evaluate the academic skills you need to develop in order to succeed on your degree course. In particular, explain how participation in the group project has helped you develop these skills and learn about the topic you studied.

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Critically reflect on and evaluate the academic skills you need to develop in order to succeed on your degree course. In particular, explain how participation in the group project has helped you develop these skills and learn about the topic you studied.

There are many different learning techniques and studying skills needed to succeed in various spheres of education. Any of the chosen professions requires its own individual approach to learning. For example, to be a good musician, you need to develop your musical skills, such as a musical ear, understanding musical notes and etc., but to be a good cook you do not need those skills at all. However, no one is born with all the skills he needs for his future profession, so during the time that student spends at university, he should discover his weaknesses and turn them into his strengths in order to be well qualified specialist and open up wide career opportunities in the future. This essay will explore and reflect on the academic skills needed to develop to succeed in Business Economics and Finance undergraduate degree course, which I have chosen to pursue my future career in Economics.

Business Economics and Finance is a course related to careers in business, management and economics. Thus in order to achieve the goal of becoming a professional economist, manager or financier, student should analyse his current personal skills and find out weaknesses which he is going to get rid of in those three years spent at University.

Firstly, student has to learn how to manage his time. Author Robert Half (1997 p. 79) claims that the skill of time management is becoming very important in order to function in today's busy world, “which calls on us to accomplish more -- with, of course, less time". Therefore it is advised to find out all the deadlines to submit given assignments and dates of upcoming examinations. However, most students do not think about a given task immediately and postpone all at the last moment. The result of that is last minute behaviour, which affects the outcome of the assignment. I do not have that kind of experience, since I always plan my time from day to week and can anticipate all the important dates and events in the near future.

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Much harder for me is doing research. It is one of the most important and probably the most complicated skills, I have ever known. Many students have problems with that, because they start doing research from the end; they are looking for information before analysing the questions they need to answer. I used to do it in the same way until I realized that it is very hard to look for information when you have no idea what the question was about and what it stands for. To do research well, is not enough to look for key words through ...

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