What is SWOT/C analysis for Students?

SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. SWOT analysis for a student implies the parts they are good at and factors that need improvement.  

Through SWOT analysis, a student can analyse what opportunities lie ahead of them.

Importance of SWOT/C analysis for Students

Doing a SWOT analysis for students will help figure out the shortcomings and provide a clearer picture of the goals. The importance of performing a student SWOT analysis are as follows.

• Making correct decisions for exploring various opportunities.
• Having a clear understanding of your goals.
• Making changes in the plan to accommodate possibilities.
• Understanding choices to counteract threats.
• It keeps you aware of the shortcomings and acts as a motivation.
• Help in utilizing available resources to the best of your ability.
• Reviewing options and prioritizing accordingly.

There are many advantages of performing SWOT analysis as a student. The significance of the SWOT analysis may vary depending on one's goals.

Below are the uses of student SWOT analysis.

• Understanding yourself better
• Building on strengths
• Eradicating weaknesses
• Leveraging opportunities
• Counteracting threats
• Time management
• Jumping from one completed goal to another

With the SWOT analysis help, students would have identified their vital areas and know what needs more work. So, pick up a pen now and make the road to your future a lot smoother.

CASE STUDY:

SWOT/C scientifically helps one know one's position clearly. The wise say, "Knowing others is intelligence; knowing oneself is wisdom."

SWOT/C shows the way to grow wise. Regular SWOT/C analysis promotes businesses, strengthens industry and empowers individuals. So, SWOT is very important, immensely useful.

Relate SWOT/C to Malavath Poorna.
    Malavath Poorna's is an amazing achievement. Born into a family with bundles of problems, she created history by being the youngest girl to scale Mount Everest. Realising the values of her success as an inspirational event, a movie based on her life and achievement was made. Her biography was also published already. At the age of 13, she set her foot on Mount Everest on 25 May 2014.

POORNA'S STRENGTHS (S): Poorna has amazing mental strength. Despite being looked down upon as being a poor one, a girl and of a socially low community, she never lost faith in herself and her abilities. She has confidence and self- esteem. She has her ambitions and goals clear. She has abundant physical stamina too. She successfully faced a rigorous physical training of running, yoga, meditation, etc. Determination and willpower in her are aplenty.

POORNA'S WEAKNESSES (W): She did not like milk. Yet, she had to take lots of milk daily for protein-rich diet.
POORNA'S OPPORTUNITIES (0):

1) She got admitted into a government run Social Welfare Residential School.

2) She got an excellent educator as her mentor (Dr. R.S. Praveen Kumar).

3) She got an inspiring and motivating coach in Shekhar Babu.

POORNA'S THREATS/CHALLENGES / CONSTRAINTS (T/C):

1) Being born into a poor

 (a) backward tribal family

(b) as a girl

(c) in a remote village

(d) with no facilities at all.

2) She faced discrimination of all types, from everyone at all levels.

3) On her way to Mount Everest, Nepal govt. banned climbing Everest.

Poorna used her opportunities to overcome threats (many) and strengths to neutralise her weaknesses (NOT MANY-NEGLIGIBLE). Thus, application of her story to SWOT C serves as an excellent model to apply the same to us.