Abigail Adams Good study skills are essential for academic success. Your awareness of your own habits, attitudes, values, and organization applied to studying will enable you to be more helpful to the students you work with as a tutor. Many of the students that we work with through the Learning Center are struggling to make the transition from high school to college level work. It is part of your job to help them make that transition by assisting them in developing the study skills necessary for their success. Take this simple test to determine the quality of your study skills.
Tutors are students who are successful learners.
They have learned how to learn. As a tutor, it is your responsibility to communicate the principles of effective learning to your students. A good majority of the students who seek tutoring do not have good study skills. If these students took a course on study skills, it would probably cover a broad spectrum of subjects including, time management, memory skills, test taking skills, listening skills, notetaking skills, how to read a textbook, and learning styles. It contains some excellent links with valuable information for students who wants to improve their study skills.