Many of your study strategies–habits you have adult on and relied on over time–work great! Still, many students find when they start college or have on more challenging course material that some habits might need to be tweaked. Reflection is a powerful tool, and LSC is ready to help you delve into thinking about what study habits keep to work for you and what you might want to alter – studying for higher can be very different than studying in high school; yous will be expected to non but memorize things, but to apply and evaluate information.

Beneath are some strategies you tin explore and endeavour out-see what works for you lot!

Studying for and Taking Exams

  • Effective Study Strategies: Retrieval Practice, Blank Folio Testing, Interleaving, Spaced Practice, etc.
  • Concept Mapping – How to brand a concept map, and why they can help you lot tie ideas together.
  •  Guidelines for Creating a Written report Schedule – Suggestions for making your study more efficient.
  • The 5 Day Report Programme – A manner to program when and how to study for exams.
  • What to do with Exercise Exams – Why does taking practice tests piece of work?
  • Consider Exam Logistics – Your arroyo to exams should vary depending on if the examination is in-person or online, if information technology is timed, and if you take access to a quiet identify to take it.
  • Online Exam Checklist – Online exams nowadays a unique set of logistical challenges, whether you are dwelling or on-campus. Be prepared! Gather as much intel as possible about the testing format before the exam.
  • Open up-Book Exams: Sympathise what it ways, y'all still need to study!
  • How to Tackle Exam Questions – Strategies for different types of exam questions plus tips for decoding examination questions.
  • What to practise when you become your graded examination (or essay) back: Whether the score you earned makes you desire to jump for joy or curl up into a ball, learning from your graded work is an incredibly valuable opportunity. Do not, echo Exercise Not, immediately toss or file away the test or essay you just got back! Here's what to practice instead.

Taking Notes

  • The Cornell Note Taking System – How to use the Cornell note taking system, with our interactive Sheet module.

Reading Strategies

  • 3 P'south for Effective Reading – Purpose, Plan, and Preview
  • Textbook Reading Systems – How to use the SQ3R and other reading systems.

Learning Online

  • Online Learning Checklist: a checklist of how to be prepared to acquire online.
  • Things to Keep in Mind as you Participate in Online Classes (including troubleshooting tips!)
  • Learning from Online Lectures and Discussions: Successful online learners, like all learners, have a growth mindset! They are flexible, tolerate the inevitable technical problems that ascend, inquire for help when they demand it, continue on peak of regular work for each class, minimize distractions as much as possible, and persist when things are difficult.
  • Online Grouping Work: Just because you aren't in the aforementioned room (or land!), doesn't hateful that y'all tin can't collaborate effectively. Just like with any kind of group work- for online group work to exist successful it helps if you think through, in advance, the ground rules for how you volition work together. See LSC's Educatee Guide for Studying Together for more tips.
  • Learning Online Resource Videos

Getting your Questions Answered

  • Office Hours – What they are and how to brand the best utilise of them.
  • LSC Supplemental Courses are offered in back up of student learning in a variety of large introductory courses.
  • LSC offers tutoring in a diversity of disciplines including chemistry, biological science, math, statistics, physics, languages, and economics.
  • You tin can besides grade your own study group or find a study buddy.