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Study Skills Package

This package provides basic information in nine areas. In each case, suggestions for changes in study habits are given. Do not feel that you must try to change everything at once. You are more likely achieve success and experience positive results by making small changes rather than attempting to change everything at once and setting yourself up for failure. A good place to start would be undertaking a change that sounds most feasible and by applying it to your most difficult subject area.

Before you begin using this package, consider the most effective, efficient, and, yes, obvious thing you can do to enhance your study skills:

TRY Attending all classes and labs (if you don't already manage to do so).

WHY? The lecture material is delivered by the person who will be testing you and gathering that information from other sources takes longer. Classes also offer an opportuninty to ask questions about difficult material and you won't miss extra information - clues for tests and assignments, for example.

The basic information in this Study Skills Package may be all you need in order to be successful in your studies. However, if you require further assistance, you can enrol in a Study Skills Workshop or make an individual appointment with a Study Skills counsellor. For more information, please contact Counselling Services (Needles Hall, Room 2080, 888-4567 ext. 32655).

We're grateful to Sally Melville (counsellor, 1994) for the original TRY - WHY concept and related Study Skills contributions.

The Study Skills Co-ordinator for the University of Waterloo, Counselling Services, is Dave Mackay, MSW.