Useful Websites

Financial Aid/Scholarships

• http://www.calhoun.edu/FinancialAid/Index.html

GRE Test Prep

• www.supervoca.com
• www.syvum.com/gre

To Help Pick a Major/Career

• http://stats.bls.gov/oco/ocos069.htm

Time Management

• www.sas.calpoly.edu/asc/ssl.html

Procrastination

• Ohio State University:  http://all.successcenter.ohio-state.edu/procrastination/procrastination-reasons.htm
• Queendom:  http://www.queendom.com/bookshelf/procrastination.html
• University of Texas www.utexas.edu/student/utlc/handouts/1910.html

Concentration

• Virginia Tech http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/concentr.html

Memory

• California Polytechnic State University: www.sas.calpoly.edu/asc/ssl.html
• Queendom:  www.queendom.com/mindgames/mindstretching/allgames.html#MemoryGames
• Virginia Tech http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/remember.html
• Virginia Tech: acronyms http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/acronyms.html

Note-taking

• California Polytechnic State University: www.sas.calpoly.edu/asc/ssl.html
• Virginia Tech: note-taking http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/notetake.html
• Virginia Tech: editing notes http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/editing.html

Test Taking

• California Polytechnic State University: www.sas.calpoly.edu/asc/ssl.html
• College of Saint Benedict | Saint John's University:  http://www.csbsju.edu/academicadvising/help/testskil.html

Motivation

• Virginia Tech: study discipline http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/studydis.html
• University of Texas www.utexas.edu/student/utlc/handouts/1903.html

Stress Techniques/Management

• Managing Test Anxiety from Western http://www.sdc.uwo.ca/learning/mcanx.html

Reading

• California Polytechnic State University:  www.sas.calpoly.edu/asc/ssl.html
• Supervoca:  www.supervoca.com
• Brock University http://www.brocku.ca/english/jlye/criticalreading.html 

Objective Tests

• University of Texas www.utexas.edu/student/utlc/handouts/1443.html 

Essay Tests 

• Checklist for Essay Tests: Middle Tennessee State University http://www.mtsu.edu/~studskl/essay.html

Exam Anxiety

• Test Anxiety:  http://gwired.gwu.edu/counsel/asc/
• How to Keep Calm During Tests: www.utexas.edu/student/utlc/handouts/1305.html

Writing

• Virginia Tech: writing papers http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/writpap.html
• Virginia Tech: term papers http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/termpapr.html
• Some Useful Transitional Expressions www.utexas.edu/student/utlc/handouts/1279.html

Study Skills for Graduate Students

• Preparing for G.R.E's www.utexas.edu/student/utlc/handouts/345.html
• How to Stay Calm about G.R.E www.utexas.edu/student/utlc/handouts/337.html

General Study Skills

• Ohio State University:  http://all.successcenter.ohio-state.edu/all-tour/study-assistance.htm
• Virginia Tech: www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/stdyhlp.html
• The University of Texas http://www.utexas.edu/student/utlc/handouts.html
• The University of Minnesota http://www.d.umn.edu/student/loon/acad/strat/
• Business Training Schools http://www.business-training-schools.com/top-schools.html

Discipline Specific Study Skills

• Math Success http://www.adultlearn.com/math-success.html
• Studying Foreign Languages http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/study/lingua.html
• Economics: www.utexas.edu/student/utlc/handouts/1409.html
• History: www.utexas.edu/student/utlc/handouts/1429.html