ABSTRACT

This study investigates the influence of study habits on senior secondary school students in Imo state but was delimited to Owerri Education Zone. In carrying out this research, four variables of study habits were used which are environment of study, note taking. class attendance and time allocation. The study employed descriptiveresearch designwhich aimed at providing information on opinion towards the subject matter while the hypotheses of the study were tested using inferential statistics of t-test to determine the difference between the mean rating of male and female students' opinion on the influence of study habit on senior secondary school students in Owerri education zone.The instrument for data collection was a self-designed questionnaire tagged Student Study Habit Skill Questioirnaire (SSHSQ). A reliability coefficient 0.70 was obtained using Pearson's Product Moment Correlation Coefficient.The target population of this study consists of all public senior secondary school students in Owerri education zone;ten percent (1 0%) of a total population of 2503under study was proportionally selected to give a total saiiiple size of 250 students used for the study. Data was collected from the sample size of 250 students.The data was analyzed using, mean, standard deviationand pooled mean to answer the four research questions posed.The results revealed a positive response from the students on study environment with a pooled mean value of 2.97, note taking with a pooled mean of 2.86, class attendance with a pooled mean of 2.83 and time allocation with a pooled mean of 2.88. The results of this study also showedthat there is no significant difference (p