Raising Attainment Evening

Study Skills

The plan

Top 10 tips for effective studying

Effective studying techniques
Your turn!

Top 10 tips for effective studying

1. Help your children to create a

good studying environment

Quiet
Bright
Comfortable
Tidy
Routine
Separate room/part of a room

2. Encourage your children to be

organised

Pens/pencils/paper in one
place
Organise notes for different
subjects into different folders
Identify what textbooks or
internet sites could help
Planning is vital!

3. Work with your children to

create a study timetable

Specific pieces of work

Homework
Other activities
Time to relax
2 hour chunks
Monitor
No later than 10pm

4. Encourage calmness

Calm attitudes lead to better learning

Patience
Perseverance

5. Develop the skill of note-taking

Notes develop focus

Abbreviations
Pictures
Highlighting
Organised

6. Help to develop resilience

Overcome obstacles
Tackle the most difficult work first
Brain will be at its freshest
Celebrate successes

7. Avoid distractions

Focus
Brothers/sisters
TV
Computers
Mobiles
Calm music

8. Make sure they take frequent

breaks

Brain fry
Physical activity
Walk/Run
Family games
Renewed energy

9. Help to discover successful

techniques

More than on this later!

Note-taking
Mind mapping
Revision cards
Mnemonics

10. Make use of positive peer

pressure

Study groups
Sharing ideas/challenges
Questioning
Teach each other

Effective studying techniques

Flash cards

Notes
Key dates/reasons/formulae
Questions/Answers
Colour code

Mind-mapping

Visual display
Branches lead off from each other
Key points
Underlying reasons
Bubbl.us

Voice memos

Key points
Listen back regularly
Use less and less

Testing

Quizzes
Online resources
Timed pressure
Group quiz

Learning posters

Visual graphics
Key points
Organised
Different sections
of house
Colour coded

Your Turn.
Read through the passage The River Divides
Use the blank sheet of paper of paper provided to
draw a picture of the information contained in the
passage
You have 5 minutes to complete this task before
the test!

Handouts.
Study Tips

Use the Study Tips handout to think about how

you could help your children with studying

Useful Revision Websites

A handout of Useful Revision Websites for all

subjects

Final thought....