Study Skills  

Tips on improving your study skills and preparing for exams.

Sites to Improve Your Academic Success

Collection of web sites that provide tips to help you study more effectively, manage your time, take better notes, and handle the stresses of college life.

Study Guides and Strategies

This very complete site has topics including study preparation, taking notes in lectures, effective study habits, testing techniques, writing and reading skills. It is especially helpful to bilingual/ESL students in that many of these study guides and strategies are listed in a variety of other languages as well as in English.

Study Skills

This site has links to other study skills pages, twenty time savers, how to make a schedule, studying foreign languages, and studying with intensity.

Study Skills

Courtesy of Virginia Tech, here is a great listing of tips and techniques for improving your study skills. Everything from note taking to how to stop procrastinating. Be sure to take the "Study Skills Checklist" to find out where you need to improve.

Study Skills Self-Help Information This site from Virginia Tech has time scheduling suggestions, how to concentrate, how to take notes, how to read a difficult book, tips on improving reading speed, setting priorities, and strategies to use with difficult test questions.

Study Skills Package This Canadian site has tips for learning and remembering, time management, listening & note taking, reading, concentrating, cramming and writing exams.

Study Strategies

Study Strategies site from the University of Minnesota contains a study skills survey, information about time management, memorization, learning styles, and study techniques.

Test Phobia

Twenty specific suggestions to help students cope with a phobia that prevents them from demonstrating what they know.

Writing Tips

Information for students who wish to improve their writing. Material is presented here in small, bite-size nuggets, designed for the age of information overload.