Study Tips!

Check out the list of annotated links to practical Study tips and guides under four different categories. , these tips are aimed to help the high school and university students master their memorization, learning, time-management, and examination skills.

General Study Tips

Practical Study Strategies
This study guide offers great suggestions for how you can improve the efficiency of your study habits.
Study Tips for Middle School and High School Students
For our younger visitors, the sooner you learn to get organized the better off you will be.
Three Late Night Study Tips
For those of you who seriously need to cram at the very last minute, this is the place for you.
Increasing Motivation
Having a hard staying motivated? You're not alone. This university page offers some common situations and explanations to help you understand what you may be feeling.
20 Study Tips from the Master Slacker
How to get A's and still have a life.

Test-Taking Skills

Test Taking Strategies
An excellent source for learning the tricks to taking multiple choice, true/false, matching, fill-in-the-blank, and essay question type tests.
Dealing with Test Anxiety
Some students experience physical symptoms of anxiety before and during exams (an upset stomach, sweaty palms, etc.). If this is a problem for you, try some of the suggestions below.
How Do I Show What I Know?
Here is a detailed outline to help you break down your study time and ace that exam!
Preparing for a Test
This is a brief page but contains good advice on how to keep on top of studying.

Study Guides

The Student Survival Guide
Although this site is promoting a book on the subject it contains some great information. It's presented in a top-ten list style so it's easy quick and easy to read.
How to Be a Student
This site reinforces traditional advice with a few new ideas that you maybe haven't heard yet.

Time-Management & Procrastination

Overcoming Procrastination
Managing your time while you are in college can be extremely difficult. In high school you had weekly assignments and tests to keep you on track, and at work a boss monitors your output. This page offers some time management strategies used by students at UIC to achieve their study goals.
Ten Ways to DO IT NOW
This article extensively discusses 10 practical remedies for laziness and its causes.
Causes & Forms of Procrastination
What is Procrastination? Technically, it refers to the avoidance of a specific task or work which needs to be accomplished. This article highlights the psychological and theoretical aspects of laziness and provides help on overcoming procrastination by raising some questions involving real-life examples.