ASANSKA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF DESIGN
AND TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF DIGITAL MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION
UNIT 4
DEVELOPING STUDY SKILLS
How to succeed in the academic environment
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Agenda Style
How to succeed in the
1 academic environment
Employ effective time
2 management skills
Join/Form compatible study
3 groups
Take notes and make
4 notes
5 Summary of Unit
DEVELOPING
STUDY SKILLS
MARTIN THOMPSON NTEM
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MARTIN THOMPSON NTEM
DEVELOPING STUDY SKILLS
• They are study techniques and approaches that are
effective, efficient and which result in high marks and
grades for students.
• Study skills as a concept is one of the primary con-
cerns of the science of studying (learning to learn).
• Many students fail, not because they do not attend
lectures but because they refuse to learn how to
learn.
• Learning in the university goes beyond attending lec-
tures; it is a serious business and it demands scien-
tific and practical methods and strategies.
Planning (with SWOT analysis)
Failure to plan is already a plan to fail
• One of the key requirements in planning is self-eval-
uation.
• Self -evaluation in our context is to examine yourself
and evaluate your strengths and weaknesses, as well
as opportunities available to you and threats militating
against your strengths and opportunities as a student.
• The main focus here is how you manage your time,
as a student to reach your maximum potential.
SWOT
• Acronym for Strengths, Weaknesses,
Opportunities and Threats.
• A SWOT analysis guides you to identify your
positives and negatives (Strength & Weakness) and
outside of it, in the external environment (Opportunity
& Threat).
• Developing a full awareness of your situation can
help with both strategic planning and decision-making
• How beneficial is SWOT analysis to students?
Study Goals Template
John Morinho’ Study Goals for Al-
pha 2022/2023
Subject Goal
ENG 111 A
ENG 112 A
ENG 115 A
ENG 116 A
FRE 116 A
GST 111 A
CST 111 A
Study Plan Template
• Subject Time and Venue
Revise lecture notes 3pm-4pm in the Library
Varieties of language use 4pm-5pm in the Library
Read a text and take notes 5pm-6pm in the Library
Do my assignment in room 9pm – 10pm my
Read chapters1 & 2 Stephen Bailey
• It is a good idea to think of your study as a job and
like all jobs, studying can be done either effectively or
efficiently, or ineffectively and inefficiently.
• The way to improve study habits is to manage TIME
EFFECTIVELY.
• Managing your time well means having a good bal-
ance between studying and social activities.
Effective time management
Prioritising your time: Have you considered what you
do with you 86,400 seconds or 168 hours each week?
Can you say with certainty which activities provide you
with the most output and which take up most of your
time but achieve little?
Are you aware of your peak energy times and have you
scheduled the most difficult activities for those times.
Effective time management
Know your body clock: Our body speaks to us. You
should be able to recognise times when you are ener-
gised and eager to do something.
You may be a ‘night owl’ and like to study in the middle
of the night, or alternatively, you may be an ‘early bird’
and prefer to get up very early in the morning to study.
Match your peak studying powers with the time available
to study. You need to take advantage of the natural laws
affecting your body in scheduling study during peak time
to maximise learning opportunities
Effective time management
Identify time wasters and avoid them: It is a feature of
being human to waste time; everyone does it to some
extent.
The important thing is to recognise when you are relax-
ing in order to ‘recharge your batteries’, and when you
are daydreaming to avoid getting down to your studies.
There are Self-inflicted time wasters and External
time wasters
Self-inflicted time wasters
• Procrastination
• Perfectionism
• Lack of self-discipline
• Worrying
• Personal disorganisation
• Over commitment
• Lack of priorities
External time wasters
Telephone/ Social media
Visitors
Intrusions
Television
Waiting
Coffee bar conversations
Crises
Conclusion
Learning is very much a matter of personal preference
or style. Identify what works for you and let it guide you
throughout your course.
Assignment
Answer one of the following questions:
1. Develop personal study goals and plan for the current
semester and briefly demonstrate how that will help you
get high grades at the end of the semester.
Or
2. Mention and briefly explain five challenges to effective
study on campus and state how best they can be sur-
mounted.
Thank you
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