College and Career Readiness Coach, Tiffany Terrell

Study Skills:

First, find a place to study away from distractions.

Use a planner to keep track of assignments. Develop a system to keep track of important papers.

Communicate with your teachers. Ask if you're unsure of anything.

Estimate how long each assignment will take.

Break big projects down into smaller ones.

Highlighting notes, then rewriting, involves both sides of your brain.

Use Post-its to mark key textbook passages.

Make study cards, maps, and diagrams of concepts.

Develop effective memorization methods....list, flash cards, Acronyms/acrostics.

Test-taking Skills:

Read directions carefully, and avoid careless errors.

Answer easy questions first- builds confidence, scores points, may give clues to difficult questions.

Then do the more difficult questions or those worth more.

Eliminate those answers you know are wrong, don’t fit, or are similar to those incorrect.

Treat each option as a true-false question, and choose the "most true".

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