Reasons for Late Submission of Assignment:
Students have so many things and tasks to deal with. They may have many reasons for incomplete or late submission of assignments. Firstly there are unforeseen events like the internet was down or slow, or there was no electricity, or you were ill. Secondly there can be some psychological factors like the student was facing lack of concentration. Thirdly it can be due to the unavailability of resources or reference material or insufficient knowledge about the assignment. Fourthly it can also be possible that the student was unable to properly understand the question of the assignment. Another most common reason is that sometimes a student is not satisfied with an answer and he keeps editing and formatting. And the most common reason is that the students keep the work pending for the last day.
Tips for the Timely Submission of Assignment:
- Put Your Laziness A Side: First of all a student needs to change his attitude. If you are the person who always keeps his work pending for the last day then you reconsider it. Start working from the day one when the assignment is assigned. Do little but do it on a regular basis so that you don’t have a major portion of your work pending for the last day.
- Find out What Is Needed to Be Done: At the start of the semester students are provided with the schedule of the semester which tells you about all the events and deadlines. So get your mind prepared for everything. You can set reminders and schedules for all the upcoming events according to their deadlines.
- Make a Schedule: make a weekly schedule for yourself according to the tasks you have to do and their deadlines. You need to have a serious attitude for following your schedule.
- Breakdown Work Into Chunks: It is best to divide your assignments into parts. Let’s suppose the topic of your assignment is ‘The long lasting effects of COVID on economy and education’ you can divide this topic into three parts COVID, ECONOMY and EDUCATION. You can work on each part one by one.
- Take Help: instead of delaying the work it is better to take help from others if you have any problem or difficulty. This will not only help you in solving but will also save your time.
What to Do If You Get Late:
It might be possible that you may get late in submitting your assignment but it is once in a blue moon. It should not happen on a daily basis. If you can’t make a deadline it is better to inform your instructor timely and can request him for granting you some extra time. But this can only be possible if you have a genuine reason for being late. You should try to inform your instructor as early as possible. Don’t try to make lame or childish excuses because it will not help you to get extra time but will not make a bad impression of you in front of your teachers.
Show your professor that you will be responsible in future. If your professor allows you to submit after the deadline then you must submit the quality work. Put your extra efforts and time to make your work perfect and flawless. It might be possible that your instructor agrees on submitting your assignment late with the deduction of marks for late submission. Don’t get upset about it because these are policies and it is better to have less than none. You must make it assure your instructor that you will be careful in future, you will submit the work on time and it will not happen again.
