FCC Research Guides: Study Skills for Academic Success: Study Skills

10 Steps to Academic Success

Develop strong listening & note taking skills
Stay ahead on class reading
Improve your writing and speaking skills and your research skills
Don’t Procrastinate
Set aside fixed study time and space
Use memory devices to recall information
Use test taking skills and strategies
Establish a study group especially for Math, Science, and Language courses
Know yourself to increase your learning power by knowing your personal style.
Know how to manage your stress.

Academic Success Plan
Map out a personal plan-of-action that will help you to achieve academic and life success.
Self-Regulated Learning
Analyze problems and successes of the past to make a plan and chunk assignments.
What to Do When You Don't Know
Deconstruct Syllabus and Semester at a Glance
Step-by-Step Guide: Breaking Down and Assignment Sheet and Rubric

Study Tips

Study Tip of the Week: Use acrostics to help memorize concepts.

Image of a modern, empty room. Text: use a mind palace to help memorize concepts.

Study Tip of the week: Use the time between classes to get some study/reading time in.

Study tip of the week: Exercise before studying. Exercise gets blood, oxygen, and nutrients to your brain and helps you to retain information better.

Study tip: Sleep moves memories from short term to long term memory (get some sleep!)

Study tip: Study in a group! Grab a group and study room and review notes and readings together.

Study tip: Blurting- read your notes and then put away. Ona blank sheet of paper, write down everything you can remember. Look back at your notes and make corrections , noting what you missed. repeat.

Study tip: Copy your notes into an AI tool, such as Chat GPT, and sk it to create study guides and practice tests based on the material

Study tip: Study when you are most alert.

Study Tip: Use a mind map for difficult sections and to make connections.

Use the Pomodoro Method Pick a task to focus on Set a timer for 25-30 min Work on the task until timer goes off Take a 2-5 minute break Repeat steps 1-4, then take a 15-30 min break

Study tip: summarize your notes within 24 hours of each lecture

Brain Hacks

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.

Study Skills for Academic Success

10 Steps to Academic Success

Study Tips

Brain Hacks

How Can Learning about Studying Help?

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