This workshop for new Electrical Engineering undergraduates was organised by Arti Agrawal, and we looked at various study skills issues – especially those relating to the step up from pre-university courses to the undergraduate experience.

I hope it was helpful for everyone. The handouts are on moodle: http://moodle.city.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=907472 , and let us know below if you have any questions or comments about what was covered.

Next month, the Counselling Service and Learning Success will be presenting a series of workshops relating to exams and revision. Here’s some information about them, plus the schedule. As ever, any questions or comments – please post.

Time Management – A practical session with advice to help you develop your own revision timetable

Top Tips for Exam Success – A lively session where you can learn some great exam tips and maybe share some of your own.

Revision and Your Memory – Advice and tips about how you can improve your memory and learn more effectively

From Anxiety to Calm – A session to help you identify and change your responses to exam anxiety to lead to a calmer, clearer stateof mind

Mindmaps and your Revision – Mindmaps use both the left and right side of the brain, incorporating words, images and colour. This workshop will give you an opportunity learn how to use mindmaps in your revision.

Start your Revision Now–Do you put things off. During the workshop you will have a chance to think about why you procrastinate and ways to change this.

I’m running another workshop, this time for undergraduate Psychology students (specifically, PS1002 Academic and Professional Skills for Psychologists). It’ll be on note-taking, plus some other areas, like critical reading and thinking.

The slides are available in the workshops section of the Learning Success moodle course. Click here: http://moodle.city.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=899989 . The worksheet’s there as well.

If you’ve got any comments or suggestions, please let us know by posting a comment below.