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Here are some Study Skills Tips
For You
Where's the best place to go for Study Skills?
We asked the experts...the Sheridan College students who have succeeded
in their classes...how they did it. These tutors from the Advantage
Tutor Program have shared some of their favorite time management and
study skills tips.
- Disappointed that your instructor doesn't
do a review before the test? Go to class loaded with questions. That
will be your review and will be tailored to your needs. Some instructors
wait for you to ask.
- A dry erase board which fits into your
notebook can be used for drawing graphs, charts & illustrations.
You can make changes quickly without having to redo the entire illustration
and it really saves on paper.
- Often people who are making too many
errors on math tests are doing so because they are writing too small & getting
signs mixed up. Write LARGER and use one color ink for negatives
and another color ink for positives.
- 3 X 5 flash cards can be used with words
or phrases on them. They are especially good for math formulas.
- Are you getting mixed up between too
many new terms? Write the term on the front of the flash card and
the definition on the back. Take them with you when you take a bath,
travel, etc.
- Use the lag time before class starts
to review notes, text, etc. Over an entire semester this time adds
up and the extra effort can mean the difference in a letter grade.
- Use separate notebooks or folders for
each course and different colored paper for each course (usually
of a meaningful color) to keep from getting disorganized.
- DON'T JUST DELETE EXTRANEOUS MATERIAL
FROM RESEARCH PAPERS--DUMP IT INTO MEMO BOOKS FOR FUTURE USE. For
those who have difficulty focusing on the subject of a research paper
and interject too much personal material, reread your papers after
the first draft, extract the personal material and put it into a "me
journal". (5 X 3 memo books work well.) Then after you have
'dumped' that material, your mind is clear. You can move on and later
you can go back to your memo book and get ideas for your autobiography,
or your special projects.
- Do you have trouble with approaching
word problems in math? Try a new approach of always drawing a picture.
- When you are proof reading math problems,
you have an advantage. Often you can prove your answer
(i.e. plugging it in to the formula, etc.) Before turning in you
paper go over the problems and prove them.
- Sign up early in the semester to meet
with a tutor to help you over the rough spots. See the schedule of
tutoring sessions available at this time. See Judy in the Griffith
Memorial Building, room 110 if you have other tutoring needs. Also
visit the Writing And Communications
Center.
FROM THE TUTOR COORDINATOR - Piaget tells
us that we learn in 'schemas', instead of learning isolated facts.
(For example: To learn to tie a knot or use a lawn mower involves groups
of skills, and we learn them together.) In your studies you can learn
faster by creating your own 'schemas'. If you need to know the theorists
for Psychology, you can draw one chart representing Piaget's stages
of development, along with other information pertinent to his theories,
and another chart representing Freud's stages of development, along
with other information pertinent to his theories. On the back you can
list important terms & definitions. These charts can be pulled
out quickly and frequently for your review.
Also ask the tutors about mnemonics, which
are schemas for learning
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