Study Skills for Success

Title

Study Skills for Success – Part 1

Time

75 – 90 Minutes

Content

Belief

Develop a growth mindset

•  Growth vs Fixed Mindsets
• Neuroplasticity: adaptability & habit formation
• Key messages: ‘My brain is like a muscle’ & ‘Struggle is good’

Excellence

Distraction destroys action

•  Managing Distractions
  • Obstacles & Solutions
• Study / Homework Plan including a free customisable tool

Study

Work smarter not harder

• Study Chunks
• Review Notes
  • Ebbinghaus’ Research
  • Forgetting Curve
  • Spaced Repetition: 5 reviews = ~95% retention
• Mnemonics

• Consolidation
  • teach what you learn to others in a way that they can understand it

Toughness

Never give up

• Grit
  • Alison Lee-Duckworth’s research
• Resilience & motivational story / video
  

Workbook

Title

Study Skills for Success – Part 2

Time

75 – 90 Minutes

Content

Belief

See It…Believe It….Achieve It

•  Positive self-talk to improve self-efficacy
  • “I can” vs “I can’t”
  • Can -> Possible -> Try -> Better Results
  • Can’t -> Impossible -> Don’t Try -> Poor Results
• Miracle Man video: How positive self talk, having a goal & visualisation can transform your outcomes

Excellence

Have a commitment to completion

•  Goal Setting
  • how participating in the ‘Selfie Challenge’ significantly improves ATAR scores
  • how accountability makes the difference to goal achievement

Study

Work smarter not harder

• Diary / Time Management Technique
  • Plan | Prioritise | Chunk | Time Frame
• Study Groups
  • collaboratively learn while reducing the amount of study by at least one-third
• Baroque music
  • using music to put the brain into the alpha state, focus for longer & retain more information
• Exam Success Strategies
  • Doing past exam papers to raise exam performance
  • 3 steps to overcoming mental blanks / blocks
  • 3 ways to build exam confidence

Toughness

Never give up

• Resilience & motivational story / video
  

Workbook