C2 – Studying Abroad

This course helps students with tips & strategies to improve their study skills in a foreign universities

1. Habits of Successful College Students

The ten habits of successful college students and how to develop and strengthen their use.

2. Organizing Your Study Time, Part 1

Examine how you (as a student) spend and waste. Learn methods for setting and reaching goals, understanding the crucial study differences between high school and college, and how to start getting more organized as a student.

3. Organizing Your Study Time, Part 2

Learn how to set up a successful, intelligent study schedule and focus on why you procrastinate and how to conquer that bad habit! 

4. Improving Your Listening Skills

Explains problems that get in the way of good listening and teaches techniques designed to improve listening and concentration skills in (and out of) the classroom.

5. Taking Better Lecture Notes

Discusses several common note-taking mistakes and provides techniques for recording, organizing, and reviewing the important information given during a lecture.

6. How to Predict Test Questions

Teaches several methods designed to help students create their own practice quizzes in order to prepare more effectively for upcoming tests. 

5. Preparing for Tests

Shows students important study principles and discusses how to spend the last few days before a test studying in the most productive ways.

6. Test-Taking Skills

Teaches some general test-taking strategies and focuses on true/false and essay questions.

7. More Test-Taking Skills

Learn how to budget your time on tests, read multiple-choice questions the right way,  and deal with the loss of confidence during a test. 

8. How to Remember for Tests

Uses two memory exercises designed to teach you how to remember more of
what you read in textbooks and how to organize material to increase understanding and retention of information.

9. Memory Tricks

Showcases several fun and unusual memory tricks designed to help students memorize school-related information, names, etc. A few simple but effective math tricks will also be presented!

10. More Memory Tricks

Teaches several more ideas about how they can use creative memory tricks to help them memorize items in groups, definitions, and exact locations on a map or diagram.

11. Great Ways to Study

Teaches basic study techniques, focusing on several textbook reading and study methods.

12. More Great Ways to Study

Covers textbook study methods such as “reducing,” highlighting and discusses the best ways to use flashcards and other study aids.