STUDY SKILLS IN RELATION WITHCOGNITIVE ATTAINMENT IN ENGLISH OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Cognitive relating to, or being conscious mental activities (as thinking, reasoning,
remembering, imagining, learning words, and using language).Language is absolutely central to our
learning: without it, we cannot make sense or communicate our understanding of a subject. Study
skills are an array of skills which tackle the process of organizing and taking in new information,
retaining information, or dealing with assessments. Study skills dimensions include, reading text
book, note taking, studying,memorizing, preparing for test and managing your time.
Normative Survey method was adopted in the present study. Seventh standard students of Chennai
District were used as a sample for the study. The result revealed that there is positive and significant
correlation between the high school students study skills and Cognitive attainment in English. It is
also resulted that there is significant difference in the demographic variables choose in the present
study.