The document discusses reflecting on past achievements and what led to success. It prompts the reader to consider whether success was due to help from others, their own commitment and consistency, or from practice. Gardening is used as an example where skills like managing deadlines, self-motivation, perseverance, research, and communicating viewpoints are relevant both to studying and everyday life. The document encourages rating one's proficiency with these academic skills and thinking about when and how they were developed.

2.  Put a glance on your achievement(s) in past
 What provoked you for that action?
 Was it because someone helped you
 Was it your own commitment/consistency
 Did you practise for that success
 Sport, academic competition…..
 Take the example of gardening
 All the skills of gardening are, indirectly,
relevant to study. Crucial point is knowing
them and utilizing them

3. Academic skills (skills used in
everyday life which relate to
academic skills)
Self-rating
5 = good;
1 = very weak
Examples: where or when you
developed this skill
1 Managing deadlines 4 Taking children to school,
submitting application form
despite illness
2 Being self-motivated and
able to persevere with
difficult tasks
3Having the confidence to
'have a go' and to express
my own ideas
4Finding out information
from different sources
(research)
5 Reading complicated texts
or forms to find the gist of
what they are saying
6 Writing things in my own
words
7 Being able to argue my
point of view, giving good
reasons