• Study Skills

  • What Your Instructor Wants to See on Your Exam

    What Your Instructor Wants to See on Your Exam

    I​t sounds like such an easy question:  ”What does your instructor or teacher want to see from you on your test paper?”  And the easy answer:  ”He wants to see the right answers.” H​owever, it’s a bit more complicated than

    May 30, 2011 | 7 comments | View Post

  • Yes, You Really Can Study Math

    Yes, You Really Can Study Math

    It’s a popular misconception that you can’t really study for math.  People who say you can’t will admit that you can do math assignments and math homework.  But actually studying it–looking at material in order to better on tests and

    May 23, 2011 | 2 comments | View Post

  • Acing Classes with Little or No Study

    Acing Classes with Little or No Study

    You’ve probably known people, either in high school or college, who seemed able to pass any class–even make A’s–with little or no study.  It wasn’t necessarily your imagination, either.  It’s a fact that people learn differently, and some people manage

    Apr 05, 2011 | 4 comments | View Post

  • Teaching Study Skills

  • Teaching Study Skills – What to teach

    Study on test preparation – The Test Preparation Study was conducted from 2004 to 2008 by researchers at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, What Did Teachers Tell Us? Preparing Students for the Test

    Oct 19, 2009 | 5 comments | View Post

  • Essential Products for getting students organzied

    Essential Products for getting students organzied

    Many schools publish a list of required back to school supplies. These lists are usually very detailed and contain everything your student may need during the school year. These lists can also be too broad and overwhelming in its requirements.

    Oct 05, 2008 | 6 comments | View Post

  • How Teachers Can Teach Study Skills

    How Teachers Can Teach Study Skills

    Teachers, especially at the higher grade levels, often assume their students learned effective study skills in prior school years. As a result, students often make it to the college and university level with few study skills and poor study habits,

    Feb 27, 2008 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Other Recent Articles

  • Tips for Memorizing

    Tips for Memorizing

    No matter how easy or hard the class, no matter the topic of the course, you can’t get away from them: Lists are everywhere.  Whether you’re required to memorize the Elements, the systems in the human body, or the capitals of the fifty United States, any time you take tests, you can expect to have [...]

    Jul 16, 2010 | 2 comments | View Post

  • Creating Your Personal Study Space

    The last thing that you probably need when you’re at college is another place to “hang out.”  Most students have plenty of those.  What you need, instead, is a good place to study.  Let’s look at how you can take the small area you have in your dorm and turn it into an effective study [...]

    Apr 18, 2010 | 2 comments | View Post

  • SQ3R: Still a Classic Study Method

    The SQ3R study method is a technique that goes back decades, and possibly more than a century.  Still, there always seem to be those who have never heard of this classic way of studying your textbooks.  So for that group of people, let’s talk about it.

    Apr 14, 2010 | 1 comment | View Post

  • Better Textbook Reading Skills

    Better Textbook Reading Skills

    Reading a textbook is not like reading a novel.  A whole different kind of reading has to be  employed to really understand the material.  To study your books effectively and be ready for your class exams, try the following suggestions. – Don’t just read it; re-read it. You’ll find that the material often gets easier [...]

    Apr 10, 2010 | 7 comments | View Post

  • Taking Power Notes

    Taking Power Notes

    Maybe you’re one of those who takes notes in class just because it’s what you’re supposed to do–but then you never look at them after the class.  Or maybe if you do look at them, you find yourself regularly trying to understand what it is you wrote.  Or you wrote it.  If so, you need [...]

    Apr 06, 2010 | 4 comments | View Post

  • Mind Maps Maximize Study Effectiveness

    Mind Maps Maximize Study Effectiveness

    As a student, you have to  take notes for many, if not all, of your classes.  You then use these to study for tests and semester exams.  But there are problems with this method.  For instance, many of us have incomplete notes, and many more take those notes and never again look at them.

    Apr 02, 2010 | 3 comments | View Post

  • Advice for the Memory Intensive Course

    Not every course is as tough as the next. Some require little more than faithful attendance to pass.  This is especially true of many general education courses taken during your freshman year.  But there are others that are killer courses. These are usually the ones that make you memorize a ton of material from lectures, [...]

    Mar 29, 2010 | 2 comments | View Post

  • Better Memory Equals More Effective Study

    In many ways, study skills are synonymous with memory skills.  Your study will only get you better test grades if it leads to your memorizing the material for which you’ll be quizzed.  So let’s take a look at some tips that are sure to improve your memory and make your study time more effective.

    Mar 25, 2010 | 4 comments | View Post

  • How to Study for Math Classes

    How to Study for Math Classes

    Most of us know how to study for a science or language or social studies / civics course. You simply learn the historical or scientific facts, and you should be good  to go.  But how do you study for a calculus or trigonometry course?  Is it even possible to study for a math exam? It [...]

    Mar 21, 2010 | 2 comments | View Post

  • Willpower and Balance in College

    Willpower and Balance in College

    College is not a simple task. You know that. Most of your school mates probably find school to be overbearing, overwhelming and extremely stressful. Many students drop out due to poor grades, finding the independence to prove too stressful for the. A lack of social life and not being able to balance the workload with [...]

    Mar 05, 2010 | 2 comments | View Post