Study Skills Preparation

Excellence in Academics Tutoring realizes that part of retaining content knowledge is having the use of strong study skills to keep that content information in the student’s long-term memory. Because having these study skills are key in academic success, Excellence in Academics Tutoring offers a comprehensive study skill preparation in which the following things are introduced, practiced, and schematically built upon:

• A diagnostic student assessment, in which strong and weak skills are identified, and insight is given into what kind of learner your student is
• Managing time effectively, with calendars and daily agendas
• Improvement of reading and interpreting visual aids, which are vital skills, in today’s technological world
• Note taking and the various ways to remembering academic information
• Preparation for a test, and skills to use when taking the test
• Recognizing prefixes and suffixes (affixes) to determine meaning of vocabulary
• Finding the main ideas in passages, which is a crucial ability, in today’s high stakes testing environment
• Practical application of increasing vocabulary through context, synonyms, and antonyms