Specialist one-to-one study skills support
Study skills support may help you to manage your studies more efficiently and learn more effectively.
A study skills tutor can support you to:
- understand your strengths as well as areas you find challenging
- refine the compensatory strategies that you have developed
- introduce you to new strategies
- develop efficient ways of study
What the sessions can cover
You decide the areas that you want to focus on.
The one-to-one sessions can cover:
- time management and organisational skills
- developing listening skills and ways to maintain concentration
- storing and retrieving information effectively
- efficient strategies for reading academic texts
- note-taking techniques
- using lecture handouts
- mind mapping and planning techniques
- organising, ordering, structuring and expressing your ideas in assignments
- spelling, grammar and punctuation skills
- proofreading skills
- how to use IT and software to assist your learning
- effective revision methods
- analysing and understanding exam questions
- how to make effective use of extra time and other exam access arrangements
What the sessions do not cover
One-to-one study skills support is not:
- extra subject specific tuition for your course
- a proofreading service
- a counselling service
If you're interested in learning more about taking notes effectively, please watch our video: Note-taking: in lectures & from reading.
In this video, specialist study skills tutors Kitty and Deborah share practical tips for capturing key points during lectures and effective strategies for taking notes from your reading.
Confidentiality
Information shared with your study skills tutor may be shared with ADRC staff members, where relevant. For example, if there are welfare concerns. Your study skills tutor will endeavour to let you know that they are passing this information on to the ADRC.