Study Skills

It's true, there are more effective ways to study and learn. Honing your skills in taking notes both in and out of class, for example, can help boost your information retention and improve your ability to contextualize and apply knowledge come exam time. Below, we'll discuss a variety of study skills, including

Learning Styles

A good first step to improving your study skills is to identify and understand your learning style.

Effective Notetaking

Notetaking seems like an easy task, right? For most students, though, taking notes is much more difficult than it sounds.

Anxiety and Test Taking

Managing anxiety, especially that spurred by midterm and final exams or large projects, is necessary to improving study skills.

General Study Skills Resources
Taking Breaks
Study Skills Checklist

Learning Styles

A good first step to improving your study skills is to identify and understand your learning style.

There are seven learning style categories, and while knowing which category most closely matches your habits and personality can help you shape better study habits, most likely you learn to some degree through each of these methods:

Visual (spatial) learning style:You prefer using pictures, images, and spatial understanding.
Aural (auditory-musical) learning style: You prefer using sound and music.
Verbal (linguistic) learning style: You prefer using words, both in speech and writing.
Physical (kinesthetic) learning style: You prefer using your body, hands and sense of touch.
Logical (mathematical) learning style: You prefer using logic, reasoning and systems.
Social (interpersonal) learning style: You prefer to learn in groups or with other people.
Solitary (intrapersonal) learning style: You prefer to work alone and use self-study. (learning-styles-online.com 2014)

Try one of these resources for assessing your preferred learning style:

Effective Notetaking

Notetaking seems like an easy task, right? For most students, though, taking notes is much more difficult than it sounds. This series of videos offers a variety of insights and tips on how to be better at retaining the information you are presented in class.