EFFECTIVE STUDY TECHNIQUES

Academic Skills for Success in College

OVERVIEW

• Budget your time.

• Be an active classroom participant.

• Read with a purpose.

• Utilize learning techniques.

• Where to get help.

Study Schedule• Initially, plan two hours of

study time for each hour of class time.

• Schedule regular study times.

• Plan at least one hour blocks of study time.

• Reward yourself for using study time effectively. (Your reward system won’t work if you “cheat”).

Study Schedule continued…

• Try to schedule study periods before and after classes.

• Work on your most difficult subjects at the times you are most alert.

• Balance your activities.

• Keep your schedule flexible.

TEXT BOOK READING &NOTE TAKING

• Read or skim the text before class.

• Go early and stay late.

• Sit close to the instructor.

• Don’t try to write everything down.

• Use a separate binder for each subject.

• Use abbreviations.

LEARNING TECHNIQUES

• Flash cards

• Acronyms - a word (as NATO, radar, or laser) formed from the initial letter or letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound term.

• Acrostics - short verse composition, so constructed that the initial letters of the lines, taken consecutively, form words.

• Recite and Repeat

• Rhymes and Music

MARKING YOUR TEXTBOOK

• Step 1 SURVEY

• Step 2 READ

• Step 3 MARK

• Step 4 REVIEW

IN SUMMARY…DECIDE WHAT TO STUDY Lecture notes.

Textbook chapters.

Textbook notes and Study Guides.

Previous Tests, Papers, Homework, etc.

Instructors’ Handouts.

Study Groups.

SUCCESS IS JUST A COMMITMENT AWAY…GOOD LUCK !