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Study Skill Tips & Strategies

Melody Shipley

Tina TottenMshipley@mail.ncmissouri.edu

Ttotten@mail.ncmissouri.edu

Countdown to Welcome

• Name THREE student college success skills in which you are proficient

• Name TWO college success skills in which you would like to improve

• Name ONE step you have taken toward these improvements

• Let’s GO!

How Low Can You Go?

So you’ve got good intentions, but maybe you’ve been a bit “busy”. You’re procrastinating when it comes to making the necessary improvements toward reaching your academic goals. How long can you put it off or in other words…

Everybody has their breaking

points

Listening Skills• Learning by Listening and 10 Bad Listen

ing Habits

Additional resources• Good listening in class • Listening skills • More listening skills

“Time” to make it personal: Write down 1 thing you learned about listening

Note Taking

• Top 5 Tips for note taking

Additional Resources• Note taking • Note taking strategies & skills • Note taking systems (formal note taking systems)• Mindmapping video

• “Time” to make it personal: Write down 1 thing you learned about note taking

Reading Skills

• SQRW reading strategy

Additional Resources• Becoming a flexible reader• ARC handout: How to Read a Textbook• ARC handout: How to Read a Math Text

“Time” to make it personal: Write down 1 thing you learned about reading texts

reading college textbks

Study Skills

• Study skill self evaluation checklist• 10 study habits of successful students

Additional Resources• Study groups• Help with study skill including a study environment c

alculator

“Time” to make it personal: Write down 1 thing you learned about study skills

Time Management

• Time management strategies • Additional Resources• Managing your study time• Student time management • Time management for students

“Time” to make it personal: Write down 1 thing you learned about time management

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Going Up….

• http://www.counselingcenter.illinois.edu/?page_id=114• http

://www.how-to-study.com/study-skills/en/taking-tests/47/test-anxiety/

• http://www.studygs.net/tstprp8.htm• http://www.studygs.net/tstprp8.htm• http://www.ulc.psu.edu/studyskills/test_taking.html• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2DgB3X2Afg (video)

Test Preparation

• Cramming for tests • Additional Resource• Video-cramming if you absolutely need to

Test Taking

• Testing skills (scroll down to the tricks) • Additional Resources• Test taking tips• Video—testing tips• Testing taking skills• More test taking skills • Taking essay tests

“Time” to make it personal: Write down 1 thing you learned about test taking

Improving Memory

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J9J_yD4-1k (video)• http

://www.how-to-study.com/study-skills/en/remembering/29/using-acronymic-sentences-to-remember-information/

• http://www.how-to-study.com/study-skills/en/remembering/85/loci-strategy/

• http://www.how-to-study.com/study-skills/en/remembering/31/using-pegwords-to-remember-information/

• http://www.how-to-study.com/study-skills/en/remembering/32/using-flash-cards-to-remember-information/

• http://braindance.com/frambdi1.htm• http://www.calpoly.edu/~sas/asc/ael/memorization.html

Winding Down

List five strategies or skills discussed today

and create a mnemonic so you can remember

and apply them

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