Study Skills
Students are often surprised at the differences between studying for high school versus studying for college. Instead of simply memorizing facts, college students are faced with intensive exams which require knowledge of concepts and theories. Knowing your learning style and being aware of study techniques can aid in your success.
Learning Styles
Learning Styles are simply different approaches or ways of learning. There are three basic types of learning styles; visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. To learn, we depend on our senses to process the information around us. Most people tend to use one of their senses more than the others.
- Visual Learners: Learn through seeing. They may think in pictures and learn best from visual displays like diagrams, videos, and handouts. During a lecture visual learners often prefer to take detailed notes and prefer to sit at the front of the classroom to avoid visual obstructions.
- Auditory Learners: Learn through listening. They learn best through verbal lectures, discussions, talking things through and listening to what others have to say.
- Kinesthetic Learners: Learn through moving, doing and touching. They learn best through a hands-on approach, actively exploring the world around them.
Take the Learning Style Assessment to discover what type of learner you are.
Academic Strategies for Visual Learners worksheet
Academic Strategies for Auditory Learners worksheet
Academic Strategies for Kinesthetic Learners worksheet
Study & Test Taking Skills
Study skills or strategies are approaches applied to learning that help in the process of organizing and taking in new information, retaining information, and dealing with assessments.
Individualized Study Strategies for the Different Learning Styles
Suggestions for Improving Learning & Study Skills worksheet
Study Skills Overview worksheet
Self-check the way you currently prepare for exams
8Day Study Plan
A Dozen Reasons to Review a Returned Test
Identifying Exam Problems
Strategic Test-Taking - Before, During and After the Exam
Studying from Old Exams
Additional Helpful Links
- Improving Study Habits and Detrmening Learning Style- Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency
- College Study Skills Online- Mercer University
- Study Skills- Keene State College
- Study Hacks - Blog created by Cal Newport
- Ten Traps of Studying - University of North Carolina
- Top 11 Study Skills - Stanford University
- Study Environment Analysis - Virginia Tech
- Study Skills Checklist - Virginia Tech
- Putting Your Extracurricular Skills to Use in Your Studies – Princeton University
- How to form a Successful Study Group – Duke University
- Strategies for Improving Concentration and Memory - Virginia Tech
- I Just Can't Seem to Concentrate! - University of Pennsylvania
- Increasing Motivation - University of Victoria
- Improving Concentration, Memory and Motivation- Dartmouth University
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