Question 1: How can specialist study skills and strategy support help me?

  • Specialist study skills and strategy support offers you the opportunity to work one-to-one with a study skills tutor to develop the skills needed for effective study.
  • We have specialist study skills tutors who specialise in offering support through the Welsh language.
  • Your study skills tutor can help you to evaluate your existing strengths and study methods and support you in areas you may find more challenging. They will introduce you to a range of strategies to enhance your learning, such as:
  • Time Management and Organisation Skills.
  • Research and Academic Reading Skills:
    • Reading efficiency techniques.
    • Strategies for selecting information.
    • Summarising, note-making and note-taking techniques.
    • Effective use of the library.
  • Writing skills:
    • Organising, ordering and structuring your ideas.
    • Structuring arguments and expressing ideas.
    • Spelling, grammar and punctuation skills.
    • Constructing sentences and paragraphs, paraphrasing.
    • Editing and proofreading skills.
  • Presentation skills.
  • Revision strategies:
    • Memorisation strategies.
    • Exam techniques.
  • During the initial session, your study skills tutor can discuss with you the findings of your Diagnostic Report and Study Needs Assessment Report (or advise you about arranging these) to help you identify your learning priorities and future goals.
  • An Individual Learning Plan (ILP) will then be drawn up with you and your study skills tutor setting out your short term and longer-term goals to meet your specific study needs.
  • This ILP will be a flexible document that will both inform and adapt alongside future specialist study skills and strategy support sessions.
  • In liaison with your study skills tutor you will be able to focus on developing your study skills, evaluating the techniques you have implemented, and monitoring the progress you are making.