First year university undergraduates' academic experience have always been an interesting topic of study. The main objective of the study was to seek a better understanding on the level of self-directed, resilience, and online study skills among first year undergraduates toward online distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 159 students who were selected through the purposive sampling method participated in the online survey. They answered two sets of instruments namely the Learner Personality Profile and Online Learning Skill that consisted of 60 items and 30 items respectively. Both instruments were measured based on a five-point Likert scales. Learner Personality Profile scales were measured based on (1) Never; (2) Rarely; (3) Sometimes; (4) Very Often, and (5) Always responses, while Online Learning Skills were measured based on (1) Strongly Disagree, (2) Disagree, (3) Neither agree nor disagree, (4) Agree, and (5) Strongly Agree responses. Findings of the study reported that female students' level of Self-directed scores (mean=3.06) were higher compared to male students' scores (mean=2.92) based on a three-level range of mean scores (low=1.00 to 2.33; average=2.34 to 3.67; and high=3.68 to 5.00). Female students' level of online study skills scores (mean=3.90) were also reported to be higher compared to male students' scores (mean=3.61). However, both male and female students reported average level of resilience scores (mean=3.21 and mean=3.33) respectively. The correlation analyses reported no significant relationships between self-directed, resilience, and online study skill. The multiple-regression analyses reported that the self-directed variable did not act as a mediating factor in the relationship between resilience and online study skills. In conclusion, the resilience factor among first year male and female undergraduates seemed to be a concerned issue that need to be addressed and further investigated by the university academic management. [For the full proceedings, see ED636095.]