Go to class fifteen minutes early, glance over your notes, read the first and last sentence of every section in the textbook, fill in the bubbles and get an A. Not so fast, hot shot. Your tests take much more preparation now and it doesn’t start the night before. Plus, look around you at all of your fellow students: use them!! You don’t have to study alone and you can’t afford to leave studying to the night before. If you’re in a class with a mid-term and a final, you’re studying material that covers hours and hours of information. And you’re going to learn all of that at once? Studying everyday or at least twice a week may seem excessive now but come test time, you’ll be thanking your lucky stars. Of course, it’s not just grades we’re studying for but also your career!

Studying and study habits

Study groups and networking

Using office hours effectively

Control of the Study Environment  From Virginia Polytechnic Institute, a comprehensive paper on maintaining the most effective study environment.

Improving Your Concentration Lack of concentration is one of the most frequent complaints heard on a college campus. This site proceeds with the premise that improving concentration is a learning skill. Check it out for ideas on how to improve this important success component.

Establishing Good Study Habits  From Edinboro University, this site includes fourteen tried and true tips to help you improve your study habits and skills.

How to Study  A short but effective piece from Brooklyn University. A fine overview on study habits and techniques.

Improve Your Studying Skills  This site proceeds from the premise that all-nighters prior to an exam is not about learning, but merely a review. Check out this site for more.

A Classic Method for Studying Texts: SQ4R  We call this method a classic because students have found it useful since the early 60's. It's probably worth your time to try all the steps at first, and then choose and apply only those that work effectively for each of your course texts. Although SQ4R may seem time-consuming, once you know the steps the process takes only a few minutes.

How to Read a Difficult Book From Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. An important skill at the university level.

Increasing Reading Speed Suggestions for improving reading speed. From Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Organization Practice -- Sequential Diagram  An innovative and effective way of organizing information. You try first, then click for feedback.

Cooperative Learning  A great way to improve your study habits and study effectiveness. This site has links to hundreds of related sites.

College Study Strategies  A list of on-line courses through WEBCT that are guaranteed to improve your study skills. A vast array of links to specific study techniques make this a one-of-a-kind site.

Interactive Study Skills  An attractive and innovative site that is interactive and attention getting.  Covers all the most important components of studying and skills for college success.

Advance By Choice- MSU  ABC offers courses in study skills and strategies. Check out their site for more information on times and eligibility.

Study Groups  A descriptive paper describing the process of learning and studying in small groups.

How to form a study group  Study groups are a good way to build your skills with people of similar interests in your area, and make the learning process more invigorating and interesting.

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