Study Skills: Links
General
College InfoGeek
- Site with useful advice to help you learn effectively, spend less time studying, and become more productive
Student Success Toolbox
- This digital toolbox aims to help you get studying by helping you think about your readiness for study
Study skills
- A short video from MSLETB aimed at people who have been out of education for a while to help them get back to studying.
Study Tips for Me
- Find, read and share useful tips for study and learning created by students in higher education
Crash Course: Study skills
- Crash Course is an educational YouTube channel. This is their study skills course
Apps
Zapier: The 6 best note-taking apps in 2023
- Zapier dioes app reviews and this is their recommendations for note-taking apps
10 Best Study Apps for Students
- 10 of the best study apps to help you make flashcards, mind maps, create citations and work efficiently
The 10 Best Study Planning Apps for All Students
- These study planner apps for Android and iPhone help you get organized in school by tracking your assignments, tests, and other coursework.
Coffitivity
Noisli
- A "freemium" (Simple Wikipedia definition) web productivity app that creates an ambient soundscape for blocking out distracting background noise, reducing stress and anxiety and improving concentration while working or studying
Classes
Listening and Participation
- Tips on how to improve your listening and retention, as well as participation
Reading
Get Studying with the SQ3R Method (PDF)
- A plainly written, but more detailed look at the SQ3R reading method
Making Notes
Cornell Note-Taking Template
- Download and print this Microsoft Word template for note-taking in the Cornell style
40 Free Cornell Note Templates
- Don't like that Cornell template? Here are some others to try
How to Take Notes in Class: The 5 Best Methods - College Info Geek
- A brief but engaging video summarising 5 note-taking methods (remember the best note-taking method is the one that works for you)
How to take great notes
- Another engaging video on better notetaking
Note-taking template for journal articles
- Use this Word template for taking notes when reading a journal article
Group Work
5 tips for dealing with lazy group project members
- Video with some advice for dealing with group members who aren't pulling their weight
Presentations
Basic tasks for creating a PowerPoint presentation
- Microsoft's step by step guide to creating a PowerPoint presentation
How to learn PowerPoint quickly (complete 2020 beginner's guide)
- A more detailed look at creating presentations in PowerPoint
Giving a talk or presentation
- Useful advice aimed at students
Presentation skills and tools
- Tutorial providing a general introduction to approaches to giving presentations
Prezi
Time to learn Prezi
- Prezi's help section, with video tutorials
Slideshare
- Slideshare is an online platform that hosts presentations. Lots of presentations. You can get an idea of what presentations looks like and what they contain. Slideshare also hosts many presentations on creating good presentations, such as this one
Technically Speaking
- Although aimed at university science students, this site has some good advice, illustrated in video form, on improving your presentations and covers preparation and delivery
Exams
Top Exam Preparation Tips
- Offers some ideas, based on experience and expert opinion, to help those still quite new to exams
SpunOut: Your Guide to Surviving College Exams
- Find out how to prepare for college exams and what to expect
100 Top Tips for Exam Success
- Teachers, students and exam veterans provide their top tips to the Irish Times
NUI Galway: Exam Checklist
- Some advice about what you need to know before, during and after exams
UCC: Perparing for Exams
- Some good advice about exams and how to prepare for them
Stress
Aware
- Aware provides support & information for people who experience depression or bipolar disorder and their concerned loved ones
Managing Exam Stress
Mental Health Ireland
- Promoting positive mental health and wellbeing to all individuals and communities in Ireland
Pieta House
- Pieta provides free therapy to those engaging in self-harm, with suicidal ideation, or bereaved by suicide
Samaritans Ireland
- The Samaritans aim to provide support to anyone in emotional distress, struggling to cope, or at risk of suicide
SpunOut
- Ireland's youth information website focusing on wellbeing and good physical and mental heatlh
turn2me
- A web space for people to share, discuss and offload personal problems, find support and get useful information
