Essay About Causes Of Academic Failure

Every year more and more students fail their academic courses and drop out of the universities around the world. The effect of university failure can cause longlasting damage and harm to self-esteem of students, and the results can affect their lives as a whole. I have come up with what I believe are primary causes and sub-causes of academic failure in university based on my personal and environmental experiences. Regardless of the academic failure cause type, awareness of them is a first essential point in finding out applicable and appropriate solutions.

One common cause of an academic failure is a lack of motivation to study. Students usually lose their interest and motivation to attend their classes, not speaking of submitting the assignments

There are few people with a very clear idea of themselves and who are aware of their own development, and can adjust previous goals and decisions to accommodate personal growth, and can relate it to their education at the age of 18 or 19. Consequently, many students initially may choose inappropriate fields of study. For example, some of my groupmates regret choosing Two Foreign Languages department and wish they could continue their Master’s in a quite different field. As for the latter, because there is an enormous range of institutions and academic standards, students may find themselves at a university for which they are unprepared. For instance, my friend changed her university and now is unsatisfied with her decision and has lost her motivation to study which results in an academic failure. When she came from other city’s university, our university’s climate turned out to be personally unsuitable for her: students were overly competitive; teachers and university policies were much stricter than at her previous university. From the example, we see the right match of student and institution/university is an important condition for an academic success and