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Study Skills for Academic Success

10 Steps to Academic Success

  1. Develop strong listening & note taking skills
  2. Stay ahead on class reading
  3. Improve your writing and speaking skills and your research skills
  4. Don’t Procrastinate 
  5. Set aside fixed study time and space
  6. Study in short sessions to increase health and retention
  7. Use memory devices to recall information
  8. Use test taking skills and strategies
  9. Establish a study group especially for Math, Science, and Language courses
  10. Use your personal Learning Style

How Can Learning about Studying Help?

  • Take out a pen and write your full name twice. Once with your regular writing hand and once with your other hand.
  • Were you able to accomplish it? Of course!
  • Were you faster and better with one hand over the other? OF COURSE!

Studying is a lot like that. Once you learn YOUR personal best techniques, you can make study time quicker and more productive allowing you to reach those grade goals and beyond.

Online Workshop: Tale of Two Students

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"

Create Study Tools

Generative AI like ChatGPT is useful for creating study guides and can quiz you as you study or create a personalized study plan.
Prompt Template: "Create a set of questions [subject] for a test on [specific area] or a college student in a [class] using [upload vocabulary, topics, background, details, etc.]"

CORE Learning System

What Is Your Personal Learning Style?

  • Everyone learns differently.
  • Knowing how you learn best can help you to be a more successful student.
  • Below are quizzes to determine your learning style with tips to making the most of your study processes.

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