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Get Help with Academic Skills
Not all student academic skills are intuitive. Developing your skills in time management, note-taking, test preparation, overcoming procrastination, reading comprehension, and deep transformative learning, will contribute to your success at Stanford.
Make an appointment with an Academic Coach
An academic coach, like an athletic coach, observes your strategies and techniques, makes observations and suggests changes to your approach, and provides encouragement as you implement new ways of learning. One-on-one sessions are a great opportunity to learn how to fine-tune your unique ways of learning.
Attend a workshop
Workshops aimed at helping students with time management, reading and note-taking, and dealing with procrastination are held throughout the year at various locations across campus. Here are some upcoming workshops.
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There are no workshops scheduled at this time.
Request a Workshop
If you would like to have a CTL staff person give a learning skills workshop to your dorm or a student group, please contact Adina Glickman to make a request. Possible topics include:
- Time Management
- Reading Strategies: How to Get Through All Your Assignments and Remember What You've Read
- Procrastination: Untangling the Knot
- Thanksgiving Break & Academics: Making the Most of Your Week Off
- "Plays Well With Others": Working Effectively on Group Projects
Study tips resources:
- Top 11 Study Skills (PDF)
- Time Management (PDF)
- Note Taking (various methods) (PDF)
- Taking Lecture Notes (PDF)
- The Cornell Method of Taking Notes (PDF)
- Cornell Note-Taking Paper (link to website)
- Reading Efficacy (PDF)
- 5 Day Test Prep (PDF)
- Preparing for Exams (PDF)
- Taking Exams (PDF)
- Myths about What Faculty Are Thinking (PDF)
- Assignment Checklist (PDF)
- Quarter at a Glance (PDF)
- Weekly Schedule (Excel sheet)