Some students with good academic skills do poorly in college. Even though they can read and write well and have above average intelligence, they have not learned how to manage their time effectively. They overload themselves with too many commitments or they procrastinate until they simply do not have enough time left to do a good job on an assignment or a test.
Time is like money.
It is a limited resource, and there never seems to be enough of it. It is easy to squander time on unimportant things and find that you do not have enough left for what is really important. Just like money, time must be budgeted. The process of budgeting time is basically the same as the process of budgeting money. First you must determine where your time is going.