last updated: 09-14-10
Study Skills Information | On-line Tutoring
Sites to Improve Your Academic Success (www.uni.edu/walsh/linda7.html)
Collection of web sites that provide tips to help you study more effectively, manage your time, take better notes, and handle the stresses of college life.
Study Guides and Strategies (www.studygs.net)
This very complete site has topics including study preparation, taking notes in lectures, effective study habits, testing techniques, writing and reading skills.
Study Skills from the Augustine Club (www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/study)
This site has links to other study skills pages, twenty time savers, how to make a schedule, studying foreign languages, and studying with intensity.
Study Skills Self-Help Information (www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/stdyhlp.html)
This site from Virginia Tech has a great listing of tips and techniques for improving your study skills. Everything from note taking to how to stop procrastinating. Be sure to take the "Study Skills Checklist" to find out where you need to improve. It has time scheduling suggestions, how to concentrate, how to take notes, how to read a difficult book, tips on improving reading speed, setting priorities, and strategies to use with difficult test questions.
Math Tables (www.math2.org)
This site has math tables and charts for all levels of math from general math through calculus. Tables range from simple addition tables to calculus derivative tables. Also has message boards and other math assistance.
On-line Writing Assistant (http://www.powa.org)
This site gives tips on writing informal essays, thesis/support essays, argumentative essays, documenting sources, revising, organizing, and editing your writing. Regarded as the best writing site on the internet.
Physics Tutorials (http://www.physics.uoguelph.ca/tutorials/tutorials.html)
Lessons and tutorials in physics from the University of Guelph in Canada. Very good lessons, with quizzes that help in the understanding of various concepts.