Short-Term Goals are goals you expect to achieve in

• A. one year or less.
• B. one to five years.
• C. more than five years.
• D. six to twelve months.

Answer: (A)

Short-term goals are objectives you expect to achieve within a relatively near future, typically within a year. That makes the option describing one year or less the best fit because it includes any timeframe up to twelve months—covering goals you could reach in a few weeks, a few months, or exactly twelve months. The other timeframes describe longer horizons (more than a year, or up to a year but only a six-to-twelve-month span), which either miss shorter-term aims or are unnecessarily narrow for short-term planning. So, short-term corresponds to a timeframe of one year or less.