The purpose of the Student Success Guide: Study Skills book is to provide a systematic approach to learning the skills needed by every successful student: skills such as vocabulary building, time management, listening and concentration, reading and studying textbooks, taking notes, reviewing and preparing for tests. The Student Success Guide may be used independently by the student who wishes to improve his or her chances of success in humanities and social science courses. The book could also be used as the sole text in a Study Skills course or as an adjunct text in an English or Humanities course.

Are you experiencing difficulties in a subject because your study skills could use some work? Do you study as efficiently as you could? Are you organized well enough to learn the material? Are you wondering what you can do to strengthen your study skills? The three articles in this handout, Study Tips for Students, Time Management, and Note-Taking, will help you with your study skills.

How would you rate your time management skills. Complete this multiple choice questionnaire to find out where you stand.

An intermediate schedule is a weekly, bimonthly or monthly calendar which lists all your regular activities. Example: sleeping, eating, commuting, classes, studying, exercising, shopping, attending meetings, and work are all relatively fixed activities.

Many people see schedules as an inflexible method of organizing time. An inflexible schedule, however, is both useless and destructive. Instead, create a schedule to suit your individual needs and personality, one which will help you study at the best possible time. If used correctly, schedules will give you more freedom.

One goal is to help yourself become aware of how you use your time as one resource in organizing, prioritizing, and succeeding in your studies in the context of competing activities of friends, work, family, etc.

Here are some useful interactive tools, including a Time Management Pretest, the 168-Hour Exercise, Time Wasters and Ways To Plan Time.

Too much to do and too little time? Maybe you need some strategies to manage your time better!

Some valuable time management tips.

It may seem like there aren't enough hours in the week to get everything done. That may be true or it may be that you are not using your time as efficiently as possible. To assess where your time goes, why not try completing this online inventory.