Knowing how to study is like knowing how to fish. It's a set of learning skills that lasts a lifetime and brings many rewards. Just as there are ways to know that you are a competent fisherman, there are also ways to develop study skills competency.

 ASSESSMENT

Take the Study Skills Survey

Do a Time Audit for one Week

Answer the Study Skills Checklist in A Guide to College Survival

Take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

Take the Keirsey Temperment Sorter from Sunsite

 LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

Read about Time Management

Read aboutMemory Techniques and Mnemonics from Mind Tools

Print and use the Planned Weekly Schedule

Read about Motivation

Send a question or comment to a UMD Study Strategies Teaching Assistant on Study Strats e-mail

Learn about Test Taking Strategies

Develop a Note Taking System

Attend a Study Strategies Workshop

Read about Learning Styles

Become a Study Strategies Teaching Assistant

Read about Metacognition from Valdosta University

Read one of the books in the Annotated Bibliography

Take a Study Strategies Course

Print and use the Time Use Chart

Ask a peer tutor for assistance

Become a peer tutor

KEEPING A RECORD

Create Your Own Study Skills Profile

File a Letter of Recommendation from a Study Strategies Teaching Assistant or Faculty Member evaluating skills.