Academic Procrastination In Learning At MAN 3 Agam Students

This research is motivated by the existence of problems with MAN 3 Agam students, namely that there are students who delay doing assignments, it is evident that many students complain about doing assignments because of the difficulty of assignments given by the teacher, students choose not to do or postpone assignments because students are afraid of failing in doing the assignment, besides that students also spend a lot of time in making assignments given by the teacher, students think assignments can be done at any time. Task delays can hinder or even frustrate the achievement of goals in learning, regardless of whether the delay has a reason or not, delays in dealing with assignments are called procrastination. Academic procrastination is failure to do assignments within the desired timeframe or delaying doing assignments until the last minute. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative research. The results of this study are the behavior that causes academic procrastination in the learning of MAN 3 Agam students, namely: 1) There is a delay in starting or completing the task at hand. 2) Delay in doing assignments where the student takes longer than others. 3) The time gap between the plan and the actual performance where the student has difficulty doing something within a specified time limit. 4) do other fun activities instead of doing the tasks that must be done.