Study Skills for Successful Students

Fred Orr

feb 1992 · Allen & Unwin

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Studying successfully at high school, college or university requires more than discipline, diligence and determination. Students must also come to grips with a crucial range of essential skills if they wish to turn toil into triumph.

Study Skills for Successful Students shows you how to improve your learnings skills and performance by:

. Increasing your motivation and concentration

. Improving your goal planning and time management

. Keeping healthy and preventing stress

. Enhancing your lecture listening and note-taking skills

. Becoming a more efficient reader

. Improving your essay writing

. Organising your revision

. Learning how to perform more effectively in exams

Study Skills for Successful Students is down-to-earth and readable, and is crammed with instructive case studies. Each chapter features practical exercises designed to hone your new skills so that you can achieve maximum performance.

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Fred Orr is a Senior Psychologist at the University of New South Wales. His books on study and work skills have been read by tens of thousands of people in many countries. He appears frequently in the press and on radio and television.