A Study on the Reasons of Academic Procrastination among College Students

Author: Rashmi Rekha Gohain* and Sampreety Gogoi

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Abstract

Academic procrastination is often seen among college students at each academic level. It includes underestimating the time needed to complete an academic task, excuses for poor performance in a task, missing deadlines to important tasks like submission of assignments, projects, preparation for exams, etc. Most students were not aware of their postponing behavior and unintentionally delay the task. Since the college students are packed with different academic tasks that are needed to be accomplished within the designated time frame, but students fail to complete their tasks on time due to many reasons such as the influence of technology, use of social media, peer pressure, and overload of work, etc. The present study was an attempt to study the academic procrastination among College students of Jorhat, Assam, India in the year 2020. The study was conducted on 199 numbers of undergraduate students from Ist year, IInd year, IIIrd year and IVth year selected with the help of Solvin’s for

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Academic procrastination, Reasons, College students.