General Study skills
This site contains useful study skills materials - it addresses a wide range of topics, from notetaking to how to study for objective and multiple choice tests - as well as how to cope with common student problems like test anxiety and procrastination.
| Reducing Test Anxiety | The term "test anxiety" refers to the emotional reactions that some students have to exams... |
| Dealing with Procrastination | Procrastination is a fact of student life in college. Most students, at one time or another in their college careers, have academic problems because they fail to complete work on time... |
| 10 Commandments for Finals | "Thou Shall Follow the 10 Commandments for Finals"... |
| Math Word Problems | Classes in mathematics and the sciences have traditionally been the nemesis of students' attempts to maintain high grade point averages... |
| Objective Tests | True/False, Fill in the Blanks, Matching & Multiple Choice... |
| Foreign Languages | Efficient study techniques in foreign language study, like learning methods in any subject, require an organized approach, in order to... |
| Shortcut to Lecture Notes | At the beginning of each quarter, students everywhere vow that this will be the quarter they get themselves organized... |
| Taking Lecture Notes | You will be expected to remember, understand, and apply the information in your instructor's lectures... |
| Taking Multiple Choice Strategies | This is a "multiple-guess" test. The questions are strange - all of the names of people are made up and certain other words... |
| Abused Student Syndrome | The abused student syndrome is a concept developed by Miryea Lund of PCS and refers to a manifestation of stress... |
| Memory Improvement | Success in college courses requires that you master the material of the course and that you remember what you have learned when you take exams... |