What It Takes To Be a Skillful Student

  No student is ever truly brilliant or successful without applying some practical skills for success and brilliance. And one of the major skills they develop is the skill for personalized study. There is always a personal way to assimilating things, and you need to develop personal study skills in order to make a success of your academic career and succeed as a student. 

Most students prefer reading or skimming over material content due to distractions and personal inconsistencies, but developing personal and effective study skills would take you farther and ensure your success at academic ventures.

What then does it take to develop personal study skills, and to be a skillful student? Let us examine four or five tips that would help you.

• Develop practical know-how: 

You would note the word "practical" here - study skills require practical, deliberate, and sustained attempts at academic success. How? 

By simply developing insights into the importance of filing documents, making notes, knowing information sources, understanding what your course expects from you - through past exam papers, booklists, and timetables; knowing who to contact for help, knowing how to allot time for researching assignments and doing it, etc. 

The practical know-how for this comes from reading information sheets, asking questions, and working out your own solutions or what works best for you.

• Master core study skills: 

Studying requires practical skills that must be applied individually. You must master these study skills. One of them is fully understanding what is required of you; researching and internalizing the core academic requirements; and perhaps, knowing how to tackle difficult tasks that take up your study time.

• Know how to keep up your morale: 

You may not see this as important to your academic success, but this is not true - you must know how to keep up your spirits. Low morale damages your study efforts and frustrates your attempts at sitting-up to study. 

You must tackle this in the best way that works for you - yes, learn how to boost your morale and be in high spirits for your academic studies. Or don't you know that the state of your mind affects the dimensions and outcomes of whatever you do?

• Be in control: 

You may read materials without being in control, or you can't study and not being in control. Study calls for a deliberate and sustained effort at achieving or "getting something out". 

If you're always frittering away time and achieving very little while at your books, then you've never been studying. Do not forget - you are investing time (years) and money into your course - and you must take control for these not to go to waste. 

You can't blame anybody for failing and this is all the more reason why you must take control; be in control, and work out a plan for staying in control.

• You must be an independent learner: 

It is good to be part of a study group, but it is better to be an independent learner. How? By understanding what you want to achieve from your studies; knowing how much of your time and abilities to invest at studying; knowing how to prioritize you studies in relation to other personal priorities of life. 

You must be an independent or reflective learner while even being part of a study group - because eventually, you're all going to sit individually for your exams, graded individually, and succeed individually.

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