If you read through textbook chapters and then can't remember what you've read, you may have trouble with concentration. If you can't focus on what your professors are saying or find your mind drifting as you read or listen, then you may have a concentration problem. Improving your concentration may simply be a matter of changing where and when you study. By targeting what distracts you or what prevents you from concentrating, we can help improve your concentration as you read and listen. Improving your concentration can also be accomplished by working on how you are taking notes and reading your books.
Test Taking Being a good test taker is part strategy and part knowing the material.
Some students do well on homework and papers and do poorly on tests, while other students do poorly on homework and well on tests. Being a good test taker begins with how you read your textbooks and how well you take notes in class and ends with how you approach the exam itself. Good test takers know that you do not approach studying for a math or science test the same way that you approach a test in a history or literature class. Knowing not only the material your test will cover but how to approach knowledge in that field can improve your test-taking abilities. We can offer strategies for studying in the various disciplines and for approaching the different kinds of questions that will be asked on the exam.