Study Skills

What if there was a way of getting better grades, but with less stress?

By the time you arrive at the Senior School you will have developed your own study skills to manage the demands of school life. These are the skills you use every day to ensure you get the most out of lessons and are able to complete work independently. We all work differently, and adapt these study skills based on our preferences, experiences, successes and failures. Despite the fact we all have study skills, it doesn't mean that the skills we have developed are the best ways of working! Inefficient study skills mean that you end up working much harder, but you don't always make the same progress. This can mean working long hours, having less free time, stressing out, not achieving your best, and generally feeling unmotivated. 

One of the best ways to improve your studying efficiency is to regularly review your study habits and to see if there is a better way of working:

•  Could you get that work completed in less time? 

• Could you have achieved a better grade? 

• Do you keep making the same mistakes? 

• What can you do to sustain your motivation? 

• How can you make sure you focus more in class? 

In order to help you refine your study skills, you can click on the links at the top of the page for some guidance, tips and hacks to help you. In most cases, just a small change to the way you work can make a dramatic change to your progress.

A piece of advice: There are a lot of tips detailed on these pages. Don't try them all at once as it will be too difficult to stick to them all. Pick 2-3 study tips and try them out for a week. If you still want to improve further, come back and try another few.