Improving Your Study Skills

2.  Identifying Good Study Habits
 Organizing or Planning
 Learning Styles
 Scheduling
 Managing Time
 Memorizing

3.  Indicators of a Student’s Success in
Academics:
› Study period or time (when, how long, how
frequent)
› Study area or place (where)
› Courses of study (what)
› Study goals (why)
› Study activities (how)

4.  Good study habit
› Serve to benefit the student as in passing
quizzes and exams, thus getting higher marks
 Bad study habit
› When student gets failing grades or is not
coping with his classes

5.  Organizing or planning
 Scheduling
 Managing time
 Memorizing

6.  Choose a suitable area for studying.
› Available all the time
› Free from interruptions or distractions
› Well-lighted, well-ventilated and
comfortable
› Have enough space

7.  Set up the study area.
› Gather all the materials and equipment
needed
› Keep the table tidy.
› Decorative necessities such as an organizer,
calendar and wall clock can be added

8.  Set up the study
area.

9.  Set your goals
› Can be long-term or short-term
 List specific things or activities geared
toward the attainment of such goals
› Make sure that the goals set are within one’s
capacity, measurable, flexible, realistic, and
controllable
› Be reminded of the 3Ds (Deed – What should
be done to achieve the goal?; Date – When
should the goal be met?; Determination)

10.  Have a positive attitude.
 Set specific study goals.
 Keep track of lapses of concentration.
 Create a good study environment.

11.  On a ½ sheet crosswise, list down at least
5 study goals. Identify if it’s a long-term or
short-term goal and the things you will do
to achieve it. Follow the format below.
MY GOALS TYPE OF GOAL WHAT TO DO?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

12. CLASSIFICATIONS
 Auditory
› Prefer listening-based activities
 Visual
› Enjoy watching or viewing something while
learning
 Tactile or Kinesthetic
› Like hands-on activities because they love
touching things and moving about

13.  Time Preference
 Thoughts/Feelings Preference
 Pacing Preference
 Aesthetic Preference
 Tactile Preference
 Introversion/ Extroversion Preference
 Relativism Preference
 Reasoning Preference
 Modality Preference

14.  Learning Style Checklist. Determine your
learning style by checking your
preferences.
1. Time preference
 Morning
 Afternoon
 Evening
2. Thoughts/ Feelings Preference
 More Rational
 More Emotional

15. 3. Pacing Preference
 Doing one thing at a time
Doing several things at once
4. Aesthetic Preference
 Formal/ Orderly Setting
Informal/ Casual Setting
5. Tactile Preference
Does not require touching
Requires touching

16. 6. Introversion/ Extroversion Preference
 Learning alone
Learning with others
7. Relativism Preference
 Viewing things in strict terms
Not viewing things in strict terms
8. Reasoning Preference
Studying deductively
Studying inductively

17. 9. Modality Preference
 Visual learner
Auditory learner

18.  Gives a student direction on studying
 Lessens incidents of procrastination
TIME TASK
7:00 – 8:00 PM Solve problems in Math
8:00 – 8:30 PM Review Notes on English
8:30 – 9:00 PM Facebook
9:00 – 10:00 PM Write essay about
Scheduling
10:00 PM Go to sleep

19.  Make a schedule that fits your need.
 Make the schedule flexible.
 Schedule some time for leisure activities.
 Experiment to discover the best times for
studying.
 If you are studying two similar subjects,
insert a different subject in between.

20.  Allow 5 to 10 minutes to prepare before
each class.
 Schedule a weekly review time.
 Color code the schedule.
 Allow an average of two hours of study
for each hour you are in class.

21.  Make a weekly schedule of your
activities including your study period.
Color-code your schedule and put your
legend at the bottom. Follow the format
below.
TIME SUN MON TUES WED THUR FRI SAT
5:00-5:30 AM
5:30-6:00 AM…
…9:30-10:00PM

22.  One of the main factors that contribute
to the success of college students

23.  Covey’s Time Management Matrix
› advocates the use of four quadrants to
determine the tasks you “need” to do and
deciding what should be made a priority.

24.  Covey’s Time Management Matrix

25.  Quadrant 1
› Important, urgent items
› items that need to be dealt with
immediately
 Quadrant 2
› Important but not urgent
› items that are important but do not require
your immediate attention, and need to be
planned for

26.  Quadrant 3
› Urgent but not important
› items which should be minimized or
eliminated
 Quadrant 4
› Unimportant, not urgent
› items that don’t have to be done anytime
soon, perhaps add little to no value and also
should be minimized or eliminated.
› often time wasters

27.  Identify the importance and urgency of each task.
Place them in the proper quadrant.
A family member had an accident
Deadline for English 1 project
Exercising at the gym
Reviewing your career path
Maintaining relationships with friends
A phone call from a friend who wants to chitchat
A text: U want cake? Come and get ur part!
Mindless web browsing
Too much television/channel surfing for the sake of
channel surfing
Reading FB Newsfeeds

28.  Tips to Make the Best Use of Study Time
(Sotiriou, 1996)
› Never study with distractions.
› Do not begin studying if you are more
concerned about something else.
› Try to divide your studying into one-hour blocks.
› After one hour is over, do something different.
› Devote some time during your study hours to
reviewing what you have learned that day.
› Be sure to complete your reading assignments
when they are assigned.

29.  Guidelines to Make the most Effective
Use of Study Time (Glenn-Cowan, 1995)
› Study in short bursts of 20 to 30 minutes with a
5-minute break after each period.
› Experiment to find positions in which you
study best.
› Schedule study time when you are not very
tired.
› Assemble all materials needed before you
start to study.

30.  Guidelines to Make the most Effective
Use of Study Time (Glenn-Cowan, 1995)
› If you have only an hour or two between
classes, go to the library or find an empty
classroom, and use the time to study.
› Avoid temptations.
› If you have many distractions at home or in
your room, get out and study somewhere
else.

31.  10 P’s of Time Management
› Planning – scheduling
› People – persons involved in doing the task
› Problems – personal and other worries
› Pressure – family, peer
› Practice – consistent use of time
management

32.  10 P’s of Time Management
› Pace – rate or speed in doing tasks
› Prime time – doing tasks early
› Perfection – correcting mistakes committed
in tasks
› Payoffs – rewards received for
accomplishing the task
› Progress – improvement in the effective use
of time and in doing tasks

33.  5 Q’s of Time Management
› Quality – kind of time spent
› Quantity – amount of time consumed
› Quiet Time – period of rest or inactivity
› Question – the assessment of one’s use of
time
› Quit – the time to stop doing the tasks

34. Memorize the pictures in 2 minutes and
write on your notebook after the teacher’s
signal.

36. Memorize the words flashed in one minute.

37. EDIBLE
CREDIBLE
ABLE
PERMISSIBLE
TERRIBLE
AMENABLE
AMIABLE
PERDIBLE

38.  Mastery subject matter is measured in
both recall and recognition tests
 An indispensable part of student’s life

39.  Acronyms
 Acrostics/ Mnemonic
 Key Words
 Rhyme Keys
 Association or Chaining
 Gimmicks
 Image-Names
 Method of Loci
 Index Method

40.  Acronyms
› Putting together the initials of the words or
phrases in a series
› Examples:
Subjective PEMDAS
Objective ROYGBIV
Possessive

41.  For 15 seconds, memorize the following
words using acronym technique. Write
your acronym and answer on your
notebook after the teacher’s signal.
ACCOMMODATE LIAISON
COMMIT EXCELLENT
DOG NOTICE
ARSON RELEVANT

42.  Acrostics/ Mnemonic
› An invented sentence or poem with a first
letter cue
› Examples:
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally

43.  Acrostics
Elizabeth (by Edgar Allan Poe)
Elizabeth it is in vain you say
"Love not" -- thou sayest it in so sweet a way:
In vain those words from thee or L.E.L.
Zantippe's talents had enforced so well:
Ah! if that language from thy heart arise,
Breath it less gently forth -- and veil thine eyes.
Endymion, recollect, when Luna tried
To cure his love -- was cured of all beside --
His follie -- pride -- and passion -- for he died.

44.  Make an acrostic of the Solar System
planets.
 My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us
Nothing

45.  Key Words
› The initials of the most important words in the
sentences may be used to form a
meaningful word.
Example:
ANSHKASAWG

46.  I am the Lord your God. Thou shall not adore strange
gods before me.
 Thou shall not take the Lord’s name in vain.
 Keep holy the Sabbath day.
 Honor your father and mother.
 Thou shall not kill.
 Thou shall not commit adultery.
 Thou shall not steal.
 Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
 Thou shall not covet your neighbor’s wife.
 Thou shall not covet your neighbor’s goods.

47.  Tips in Using Key Words
› Write down key words and phrases of your text
on a separate piece of paper.
› Combine these words or phrases into your own
sentences and compare with the original text
› Select a keyword or phrase that summarizes your
work and that will help you recall the information
› Create a mental image of the keyword, or even
create a story about the word to memorize
more detail of the original text.

48.  Rhyme Keys
› Are words that rhyme with the words to be
memorized which may appear in ordered or
unordered list.
Example:
bun = one
shoe = two
tree = three
door = four
hive = five

49.  Tips in Using Rhyme Keys
› Memorize key words that can be associated
with numbers or rhyming words.
› Create an image of the items you need to
remember with key words.

50.  Memorize as many words as you can in two
minutes using rhyme keys. Write down as
many words from the list as you can.
Nine Swap Cell Ring
Lust Plugs Lamp Apple
Table Sway Army Bank
Fire Hold Worm Clock
Horse Color Baby Sword
Desk Hold Find Bird

51.  Association or Chaining
› Done by making a connection between or
among the items to be memorized or by
chaining theses items or words together.
› Creating a story where each word or idea
you have to remember cues the next idea
you need to recall.

52.  Association or Chaining
Example:
Mao Zedong, eye, autograph, Beijing
Mao Zedong with one eye closed signed an
autograph in Beijing, China.
Napoleon, ear, door, Germany
Napoleon with his ear to the door was
listening to people talk about Germany.

53.  Memorize the following words in two
minutes using Association. Write the
words on your notebook.
Horse Orange Table
Teacher Apple Student

54.  Gimmiks
› Are word games or tricks that trigger one’s
memory when the conventional learning
strategies have failed.
› Often used in remembering the spelling of
words.
Examples:
conscience – science with a con
fuchsia – if you see HS, I a.

55.  Image-Name
› Visualization
› Attaching images to names
› Two ways:
1. Creating relationships between the name
and the physical characteristics of a person
2. Associating a place with a person

56.  Image-Name
Example:
Shirley – curly hair
Isabelle – bell
Aaron – air gun
Tom – tom cat
Abby – a bee

57.  Method of Loci
› Refer to position or locations
› Remembering items as they are situated on
a page or found in a drawing or an
illustration
› Placing what you want to remember in a
familiar location

58.  Remember these girls using the method
of loci.

59.  Remember these girls using the method
of loci.
Girlie Tuscano Francia Lasam Ciara Uychoco

60.  Index Method
› Use of index cards or flash cards in
memorizing numerical or pictorial items

61.  Write YES if the statement applies to you
and NO if it does not.
1. My mind wanders when I study.
2. I often take study breaks that are too long.
3. I often study for the same kinds of courses
back to back.
4. I frequently fail to review my reading and
study notes.
5. I often go to a lecture without having
completed the reading assignment for it.

62. 6. I become frustrated when I read difficult
material.
7. I wait until the last day to study for my
exams.
8. I wait until the last days to complete longer
projects.
9. I look only at my test score when I get an
exam back.
10. I sometimes feel overwhelmed by the
stress school causes.
11. My study area is disorganized.

63.  If your answer is YES in any number, write
on the things you can do to improve on
the item concerned.

64.  Based on the memorization techniques
discussed, which among is/are
applicable to you? Discuss and cite
examples of how you can apply the
technique(s).