Battery discharges fast
Why does the battery on my iPad discharge fast
Why does the battery on my iPad discharge fast
You’re asking the community to guess - without any information about your iPad model, the installed version of iOS/iPadOS, or the circumstances of your difficulties.
If the behaviour that you observe is occurring after a system software update, as a first step, a forced restart may be helpful - as doing so may clear and stalled or misbehaving background processes:

You’re asking the community to guess - without any information about your iPad model, the installed version of iOS/iPadOS, or the circumstances of your difficulties.
If the behaviour that you observe is occurring after a system software update, as a first step, a forced restart may be helpful - as doing so may clear and stalled or misbehaving background processes:

Since you offer no details, I will guess that you have just updated and your battery is working overtime to complete the update. If that is the case, give it a few days. If that is not the case, please give us more detail such as model, OS version, etc.
Battery discharges fast