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Short-term and long-term goals — Exam preparation tips

A long-term goal takes months or years — become a doctor, write your own novel, play in the state team. A short-term goal takes days or weeks — learn 10 words this week, finish a poster by Monday. Short-term goals are the steps on the ladder; the long-term goal tells you which steps are worth climbing.

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Study tip

The ladder and the top — “long-term goals give direction; short-term goals are the rungs”

  1. Short-term goal: days or weeks (“read 30 pages this week”). Long-term goal: months or years (“score 90% in Class 10”).
  2. Every long-term goal needs a few short-term goals that lead to it — “do well in biology” is a step towards “become a doctor”.
  3. Look at your long-term goal every few weeks and pick the next short-term steps.

Use it for: Planning a school year, a career dream, a sport or a hobby.

Worked example: ⏳ Short-term or long-term goal: “learn 10 words this week”? → a short-term goal

  1. It will be done within a week.
  2. So it is a short-term goal.

Check: Try it: write one long-term goal and three short-term goals that lead to it ✓

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