Managing time as an adult learner is harder than its look. Adult student life requires many sacrifices, there are more challenges. Everyday life including work family time and college is a stressful situation. And then Time management becomes more relevant.
“Student has said that they have to give up at least one night a weekend or two nights a week of going out just to keep up with their studies” (Blaxter and Tight 1994)
Mature student need to sacrifice even more as in some stage need to find some spare time used until now for other tasks to prepare to exams or wright some assignments. And this is by cost of family,work or own time.
The Mature Student’s Guide to Higher Education written by Linda Pritchard and Leila Robert is a good mention for people seeking a grade as a grownup pupil. To win in college grownup scholars should hold some solid academic foundation every bit good to include indispensable academic accomplishment such as organization communicating reading and composing ability computing machine proficiency survey accomplishments and good time direction techniques (Pritchard ; A ; Roberts. 2006 ) .
Aside of that most important for a successful mature student is to have support of the family and friends:
Arthur and Tait (2004) mentioned that “The full support of the parent/ husband/ wife was regarded to be cardinal to any successful acquisition activity (parity. 22)
A survey by Blaxter & A ; Tight published in 1994 by the diary of “Studies in the Education of Adults” showed the different sum of time that grownups with full time employment and household duties are able to give to college work. This survey provides different sentiments coming from working pupils with households and from working pupils who do non hold households. Some participants expressed that non-holding a household or other outside duties give them enough free time to analyze. Students who work and have households had to form their day-to-day lives a small better in order to win in college and achieve their academic ends ( Blaxter & A ; Tight. 1994 ) .