Reaching your academic potential can be challenging, but learning effective habits can make a significant difference. Use these resources to help yourself achieve all you can.
Tips and Tools
Time Management
- Feeling Overwhelmed? (Video)
- Autumn Quarter at a Glance, 2020-21 (PDF) [Word]
- Winter Quarter at a Glance, 2020-21 (PDF) [Word]
- Spring Quarter at a Glance, 2020-21 (PDF) [Word]
- Summer Quarter at a Glance, 2020-21 (PDF) [Word]
- Weekly Schedule (PDF)
- Managing a 10-Week Quarter (PDF)
- Procrastination: What's Really Going On (PDF)
Note-taking
- Note-Taking Guide for Online Classes (PDF)
- Taking Lecture Notes (PDF)
- Notes Template - General (PDF)
- Notes Template - STEM (PDF)
- The Cornell Method of Taking Notes (PDF)
- Cornell Note-Taking Paper (link to website)
Reading
- Reading Efficacy (PDF)
- How to Read in College (link to website)
- Textbooks (PDF)
Science
- Chem 31 A/B Study Tips (PDF)
- Chem 33 Study Tips (PDF)
Tests
- Week Prior Test Prep (PDF)
- Preparing for Exams (PDF)
- Science and Engineering Taking the Test (PDF)
- Multiple Choice Questions (PDF)
- Managing Test-Anxiety (PDF)
General Advice
- All Advice (from Academic Skills Inventory) (PDF)
- Top 10 Study Skills (PDF)
- Setting Long-Term Goals (Excel Worksheet)
Take Stock of Your Skills and Learn Some New Ones
The study habits that helped get you here are not necessarily the ones that will help sustain you, and identifying the additional skills you need is not always an intuitive process.
The Academic Skills Self-Assessment is intended to provide new techniques and approaches to try, as well as offer encouragement and reinforcement for the strategies you are already using. After you select which topics you want to explore, the inventory generates comments that are tailored to your responses. It takes about 5-15 minutes to complete.