Talk:Study skills

Untitled
I hope others will come and help fill this page out. I think it is a very important topic and will be very helpful for a lot of people. -- Andrew Parodi 01:00, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Cmcente819.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 10:20, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 16 September 2019 and 18 December 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Curryl.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 10:20, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Study Skills
Study Skills is an essential part of a persons life. It involves being able to organise your time and manage it to full use. Study Skills is about having strategies and methods of purposeful learning mainly centered around reading and writing. Having good study skills will get you good results in examinations.- Nadesh Rao(HUC)

Yes like organizating your study table and revising your work. It is also scientifically proven that if you study during daytime your brain will function more properly. Jokerkick (talk) 11:38, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

Quote
I found it to be rather ironic, as it says, "Whether you did or didn't study long term you will feel good about yourself..." and seeing as there is a blaring typo, they obviously did not study english long term, or whatever---you get my drift---however, I did not remove this typo, as I thought it may be purposeful.

PQRST?
WTF is PQRST? Searching redirects here and the article mentions it without explaining —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Special:Contributions/ (talk)

Yep, I wondered about that PQRST too. This link seems to explain it well. http://arbeitsblaetter.stangl-taller.at/LERNTECHNIK/PQRST.shtml —Preceding unsigned comment added by Katpaint (talk • contribs) 10:30, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Study sessions
I suggest that this section is moved or merged into the wikibook 'Study Skills' for example as a subsection under 'reading'. Solbris (talk) 14:03, 26 June 2008 (UTC) In fact most of this article could be move into wikibook, from 'Study sessions' and to the end. In the intro paragrah, the sentence starting with 'In United Kingdom...', could be moved to Wiktionary. Solbris (talk) 14:41, 26 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I had an economics professor who asked the class what the most important things are for students. He came to the conclusion that good grades and utility (happiness) is the most important. He came up with a graph to illustrate the amount of time spent studying and the grade you would acheive. He essentially believed that to get an A you would have to study for 15 hours a week including class time. The optimum amount was 15 hours, and anything after that you are doing to much. A letter grade of a B (70-75%) would require about 10 hours- 12 hours per week. Obviously the less you study, the worse your mark will be. I have personally tried this theory and it is generally a good one. However, I only did well in classes I was already pretty good at. (e.g. Social sciences). The theory does not work as effectively if you are not already inclined to a topic. I have to study much longer to do well in math, and accounting for example. —Preceding unsigned comment added by George Carlin Fan (talk • contribs) 19:54, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

I study hard to prepare my self for any question.I wake up at 0000hours and I finish studying at 0430hrs but when the tests come I wouldn't perform as I expected please help...😢 Tonytuelommutsi (talk) 18:38, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Ok 15hrs a week isnt enough Tunga Dube (talk) 14:56, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Happy Pyramids
I need somebody to help me to figure out how to USE it(because the explanation given does not clarify anything) and why to use Happy Pyramids with PQRST? Don't you think that this method will make the study session longer since it takes some time to arrange the pyramid? Any help will be appreciated.Tohyf (talk) 14:15, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

rework
Attempt to save from deletion (AfD) Editors interested in assisting, you can contact me on my talk page: — Ched (talk) 17:54, 1 February 2009 (UTC)— Ched (talk) 06:48, 4 February 2009 (UTC) — Ched (talk) 09:53, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 1/31/2009: Research and post links for sources
 * 2/1/2009: Sort sections, trim "How To" items, rewording, section organization.
 * 2/3-4/2009: Added SuperCamp info and references. Much of the "How To" still needs to be cleaned up and trimmed.
 * 2/13-14/2009: Started Home School section - removed a lot of the essay and how to text.

The SuperCamp info reads like an ad, is it really that important to the topic? It might be better just to mention study programs in general, as opposed to talking about a specific one.Vkiningham (talk) 02:47, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

hangon tag
This subject is notable, has plenty of sources that are verifiable. There is no timelimit to Wikipedia, and it is not a paper encyclopedia. Please allow the time to bring this article up to acceptable levels. You are also free to contact me on my talk page. The hangon tag was added by: — Ched (talk) 18:00, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
 * would probably be better, as the article is not a candidate for speedy deletion. --Patar knight - chat/contributions 18:54, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Drink while studying?
re: this entry: "Recent studies have shown that studying while intoxicated can increase the neuron reception in the cerebrum, leading to more efficient acquisition of subject-matter" That is going to have to have a cite. If someone knows of a link to what study says this - please post (either here or in article as an inline reference.) If none can be provided, I'll have to remove it. — Ched (talk) 05:14, 12 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Bathwater gone, but no baby left behind to work with here. I'm not going to try to start over here.  Sorry. — Ched (talk) 19:56, 19 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Sounds like nonsense: research as well as personal experience shows that you tend to forget things done/learned while drunk! :p Lord Spring Onion (talk) 22:56, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

I agree that is preposterous.Drinking while studying is not even scientifically proven. Jokerkick (talk) 11:43, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

Style/tone of this article
As someone who has taught study/memory skills from an academic point of view as part of a Psychology course, I think it would make for a better and more encyclopedia-style article to have information on how study skills (should) work, their origins, cultural differences, age differences, links to working memory etc. As it stands, it reads rather like a poor-ish practical article on how to study. There are few if any academic citations, and a bunch of dated-sounding teaching/parenting books in the references.

Let me know if others agree, but if it is supposed to be an article about education/memory then I think the style and tone need to change. I am happy to put some work into it as I have a bit of background in the area. Lord Spring Onion (talk) 22:03, 4 September 2010 (UTC)


 * This still remains a problem over two years later. I came here looking for an article on the concept of study skills, and imagine that's what a wiki article on the subject should be about? 90.209.117.198 (talk) 19:01, 14 January 2013 (UTC)


 * I have, I think, made the article a lot more Wikipedia-like in tone. It still needs a lot of improvements, but I thought it was fair to remove the 'style' flags, because I don't think it sounds like a personal reflection/essay any more. Lord Spring Onion (talk) 21:35, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Future structure
I have removed a couple of superfluous short sections and kept the best of the info in a kind of 'history' section. The initial paragaph really needs expanded though.

I also reorganised the list of study skills. The aim was to make these broader category-type list, rather than the rambling disorganised list of anything and everything study-related which it was before. My thought was that the later sections could mirror this list, with more details of specific study skills being organised under these headings. Obviously others may thing of changes/additions to the headings.

I have been more radical than I usually would when editing a wiki, but clearly there were a lot of probs with the article before and it had been considered for deletion etc.Lord Spring Onion (talk) 22:59, 4 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Ok I have edited the existing text and kept the best of it under new headings. My new additions are still pretty limited but hopefully provides a basis for future development.Lord Spring Onion (talk) 22:52, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Conventional studying habit is passe
Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits. How could we apply this to the wiki article? Komitsuki (talk) 10:12, 9 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Interesting article, thanks for sharing. I think the four key points - location of study, doing a mixture of practice tasks instead of all one type, spacing study sessions and self-testing - are all relevant & could be included.  With citations of course.  It may be that our current article headings could be changed a bit?  The points about learning style and left-brain/right-brain don't surprise me... not really relevant to this wiki though, perhaps could be included in learning styles. Lord Spring Onion (talk) 18:38, 9 September 2010 (UTC)


 * It's because there are some scientits' names in the article, maybe wiki users could find some academic papers online and include them in a wiki article (learning styles to be exact). Komitsuki (talk) 02:49, 10 September 2010 (UT

Lack of scientific evaluation of methods
I'm surprised this article has virtually no information about the plentiful research on the effectiveness of individual study methods

Maybe because some study tips doesn't work the same on everyone even if it is scientifically proven. Jokerkick (talk) 11:40, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

Removed commercial spam
Removed blatant commercial link on "iResearch Reporter" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.45.215.245 (talk) 17:35, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

page rework needed
I teach academic success skills and have been attempting to improve this page to better serve students looking for help. There are a number of glaring problems 1) page is mainly based on one source "Dr. Gary Gruber’s Essential Guide to Test Taking for Kids" which is outdated 2) page is slanted to one method (PQRST) without reference to the many other quality methods available 3) page lacks recent scientific sources for brain research that have significantly improved out understanding of how study works 4) page lacks any reference to on-line study skills tools and methods that have sprung up in the last ten years 5) page lacks references to the most widely used study skills training materials from Ron Fry/Cengage and others 6) page lacks references to Cornell Notes which is the most widely used note taking method

Comments/discussion is welcome — Preceding unsigned comment added by Christobias84 (talk • contribs) 16:01, 23 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi Chris, many thanks for starting this discussion here. While I'm not an expert on the latest methods, I can well believe that this article in its current form is seriously out of date and also probably lacks coverage of important aspects of the topic. (Sadly, broad topic areas like this one on Wikipedia tend to attract a lot of spam but very few people able to put time into improving them.)


 * It would be great if you could go ahead and add some mention of the methods that are not currently covered, but making sure to cite each to a third party source specifically. (For recent brain research, it may also be worth reading over WP:MEDRS which has a rather stricter set of guidelines aimed more at articles that cover aspects of medical science.)


 * Please could you also mention here any websites/sources/companies/etc with which you yourself have some level of involvement, before adding them.


 * With regard to Cornell Notes, from my fairly extensive experience it's not the most widely used note-taking method in the UK (and thus probably some other related educational systems) so do be aware that some approaches common in some areas may not be common in others.


 * As I mentioned on my talk page, the "on-line study skills tools" are a big problem for this article because we need criteria to decide which ones to include - otherwise we end up with a list of four hundred links to four hundred e-businesses of different sorts. Really we should be including online tools only on the basis that they are already notable in their own right (and thus there is a Wikipedia article about them, as there is for Cornell Notes). If there are some that don't fit in this category but are widely recognised as important, then they could perhaps be included only with a inline citation to an independent reliable source (e.g. major newspaper) which describes their significance. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 01:35, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the detailed response. You have a good point about the use of Cornell Notes in the UK. Cornell Notes is mostly used in U.S. schools where I am. I'll take a look at the sources I use and start adding stuff as time allows. The medical research is a bit tricky, as you note, since some of the research is used for what it implies. For example, new neural connections in the brain seem to take about 3 to 5 weeks to establish permanent connections. This would indicate that students wanting permanent recall of a topic should refresh that information for at least 5 weeks to ensure permanent, long term memory. But the underlying medical research does not call this out as a finding. So I'll have to sort through my list of references and cite the ones that provide explicit findings related to study skills. That will take some work. Christobias84 (talk) 17:03, 27 December 2012 (UTC)Christobias84

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 1 one external link on Study skills. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20090319212840/http://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/site/colleges/seh/freshinfo/vs/StudySkills2008b.pdf to http://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/site/colleges/seh/freshinfo/vs/StudySkills2008b.pdf

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.

Cheers.—cyberbot II  Talk to my owner :Online 08:13, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

preparing yourself for the Tests with only two weeks left
How do you do that is the question that i am still failing to answer.don't stress because If you do it will bring a lot of panic.just take your study simple and as usual so that you may be able to to understand what you are studying about.some people have a tendency of rushing and overloading themselves when the examination is nearer which put them on a great risk. Tonytuelommutsi (talk) 18:50, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Are these notable?
I removed this sentence, which seems magnetically attracted to the increasingly dubious:

A number of books and websites are available, from works on specific techniques such as Tony Buzan's books on mind-mapping to general guides to successfully study such as those by Stella Cottrell and Understanding Examination Techniques and Effective study Strategies by Respicius Rwehumbiza.

Can someone make this seem notable? If not, we're better without it. &mdash; MaxEnt 00:47, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

Visual Imagery
The content from this section of the article is notable, but there are no sources. And there are some other techniques that can be shared here. There are a lot of articles on Google Scholar that have to do with the Method of LOCI and the use of diagrams, but if anyone already has quick access to the sources for what's shared here, please post! Thanks! Nantaiming (talk) 05:55, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion
The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion: Participate in the deletion discussion at the. —Community Tech bot (talk) 22:33, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Studying Person.jpg

More effective ways to study
You should study during daytime. Organize your study table. Teach someone what you have learned. Eat more healthier. Take notes. Revise. Jokerkick (talk) 11:35, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

Your contributed article, Study Techniques


Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, Study Techniques. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – study skills. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at study skills. If you have new information to add, you might want to discuss it at the article's talk page. 25Abhi7234 (talk) 14:24, 14 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Adding manually the data and if not in the Format please help your self to delete the data. 25Abhi7234 (talk) 14:57, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: SSC199 TY2
— Assignment last updated by Wub916 (talk) 11:43, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

Regarding copyright violation template
I noticed the copyright violation template and decided to take a look into it.

The post from the page seems to date from January 26, 2018. Compare with the last revision before that date: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Study_skills&diff=prev&oldid=816317532. It appears the source copied from Wikipedia instead, because the Wikipedia article at that date is almost the same as the later blog post.

Would you agree to remove the template or should a further investigation be made?

Apolo234 (talk) 20:03, 11 March 2023 (UTC)


 * An independent source (Google cache) also says the specific blog post was first published 5 years ago, that means, in 2018: https://www.google.com/search?q=About+https://geniusinthisworld.wordpress.com/2018/01/26/study-skills/&tbm=ilp&ilps=AB_Lh3r7C9w4I48f5z9EOOyyzxE6LW8kCQ&biw=1292&bih=656&dpr=1. The article in the last revision before 2018 (when the blog post did not exist yet) was nigh identical. It really seems the blog post copied from Wikipedia and not the other way around, I think erasing the template is now justified. Apolo234 (talk) 08:25, 12 March 2023 (UTC)


 * The blog has also a Twitter account, and it publishes when did it publish a new post. The date for when the 'Study Skills' blog post was announced there agrees with the date in the WordPress post: https://twitter.com/Geniusknows786/status/956827469348311040. Apolo234 (talk) 08:37, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Human Cognition SP23
— Assignment last updated by Nancyrm127 (talk) 05:33, 4 April 2023 (UTC)