Essential Study Skills: Strategies for Ultimate Success
What you'll learn
- choose the right study technique for you
- appreciate the types study you may undertake
- understand that there are three main ways that you learn
- identify what reading style best matches your type of study
- practice and appreciate the different types of condensing and summarising methods
- understand how cue cards work
- acquire note taking skills that will aid studying
- know how to study from books in an effective and efficient way
- understand how to prioritise your studying
- Know how to preempt what questions you may be asked
- appreciate how visual methods can aid information assimilation
- understand the benefit of auditory methods and techniques
- understand methods to ensuring you don't miss anything out when practicing / answering questions
- learn the ASPIRE strategy
- undertake a critical reflective learning exercise
Requirements
- you may wish to take notes as you along
- please complete the baseline / pre course questions. This will be re-visited at the end of the course as part of your critical reflective learning
Description
This study skills course covers; how and why you learn, multiple study skills methods, how to read, take notes and study from books, prioritisation, visual and auditory methods, ensuring you don't miss anything out, how to preempt exam questions as well as a general study approach and a list of apps and web based systems. This will all combine to produce a system which enables you to learn & recall faster and smarter.
**UPDATED OCTOBER 2015**
Master essential study and learning strategies for ultimate exam success!
- Recognise the 5 reasons you study
- Appreciate different learning styles
- Examine condensing, summarising and cue methods
- Recognise the 3 main reading styles
- Learn how to study from books and take great notes first time
- Understand a technique for prioritisation of study material
- Learn visual and auditory approaches to study
- Learn techniques for ensuring you do not miss anything out when answering questions
- Appreciate the need for a great general study approach
- Recognise how apps and web based systems can contribute to exam success
In short this course offers you a complete learning and study system that can be adapted to you and your topic. It shows your progress through pre and post critical reflective learning.
It contains 26 videos as well as comprehensive supporting information and documents.
This course is an essential 'one-stop-shop' for study skill success.
Who this course is for:
- this course is suitable for anyone studying or learning. Or, anyone who teaches or instructs others
Instructor
![Sarah Simpson](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
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- 139 Reviews
- 2,293 Students
- 5 Courses
Hi and welcome,
So, you may be asking yourself "why should I choose a course designed and delivered by Sarah?" and its obviously a very good question. After all, we all work hard to earn money and you need to be confident that my courses will give you the very best Return on Investment (both in terms of financial commitment and time).
I have taken my 22 years experience from; the public, private and tertiary sectors, university lecturing, working for the police, fire and councils, being a Fellow of The Institute of Leadership & Management and writing several high download ebooks and converted this into high quality, information rich courses.
This creates a ecourse which is comprehensive, easy to 'break down' and jargon free which ensures you get the best experience possible.
I am also available to answer any questions you may have - remember the only silly question is the one you don't ask!
So, I really hope you enjoy my deliveries as much as I have enjoyed designing and writing them :-)
Best wishes Sarah