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Adolescents failing due to poor study habits reflect weakness in:

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UPTET 2026 Paper 2 Social Studies Question Paper (3-Jul-2026) (Shift 1)
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Self-regulation

Poor study habits, such as procrastination, lack of planning, or inability to manage time and effort, are primarily linked to weak self-regulation, which is the capacity to monitor, control, and direct one's own learning behaviour toward a goal.

Adolescents with weak self-regulation struggle to organize their study routines and sustain effort, leading to academic failure despite adequate ability.

This is unrelated to insight, which concerns sudden problem-solving understanding, and to reflexes or classical conditioning, which are involuntary or associative response mechanisms with no bearing on deliberate study behaviour.

Hence, failure due to poor study habits reflects weakness in self-regulation.

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