The document discusses effective study skills for academic success. It emphasizes that motivation, time management, and note-taking are essential skills. For motivation, students should remember their goals to stay focused during difficult tasks. Managing time well requires planning a daily schedule with balanced study and breaks. Note-taking helps students remember and understand lectures, and can take various forms like mind maps. Using these core skills effectively allows students to achieve their academic goals.

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Effective study skills
Success in school or university has many different keys ,And one of the most
important keys to successed in school is practicing a strong and effective study skills
because they help students to achieve more productive results and acquire good
grades,and it also differ from one person to another depending on one's learning style.
intrapersonal people find libraries a calm and suitable place to review their
textbooks,whereas Interpersonal people enjoy working in a group exchanging
ideas,brainstorming about their handouts and assignments. But,There are some golden
tips that every successful student need to include in a study plan. Motivation, time
management and taking notes .
Some people say that Motivation is like breathing,As We need the latter to stay
alive , We also need motivation in our dailylife in order to achieve our goals and realize our
dreams. A teacher should be motivated to help his students learn better, A doctor has to be
motivated to help his patients to heal and recover. And students should be also motivated
so as to study effectively ,because if he isn't motivated and interested in what he's
studying,There won't be productive results at the end of his study's session.But,This
motivation can increase and decrease over time. When a student is strongly motivated, it's
easier for him to concentrate and stayed focus,and when assignments seem to be difficult
and so long. And he has a lot of stuff to do. He begins to loose it. So, from time to time,it's
imporant to try to boost his motivation by reminding himself of his goals and dreams that
he want to achieve when he gets this qualification. And finding a source of inspiration. For
example, he could imagine himself teaching business english in an international university
or winning nobel prize in art or science. In other words. The more he remembers his goals
either short‐term or long –term ones,the more motivated he becomes.
When the student becomes so motivated about his studies, so keen on learning
and understanding his subjects ,managing and scheduling time is the next effective study
skill that any successful student would need to achieve his academic success and perform
well in his studies. Keeping records is one of time management's tools where the students
write their daily schedule in their notebooks. Subjects that they will revise and how long
they're going to spend in each one.For example. As a student in Ict and tefl master
program,I can study litterature for 2 hours then writing my business english assignments in
3 hours and not forget to open my grammar book and do some activities. As a result, I have
saved much time to revise other subjects. But, students need to balance between studies
and relaxation time which will lead to a happier,healthier and less stresssful life. So, don't

2. forget to stop your writing to drink a cup of coffee and watch your favourite movie. Relax
and stop to smell roses!
A smart,motivated student who successed to use time efectively and wisely should
take another step in order to improve his study skills. It's taking notes either in the
classroom where the insructor explains lesson or at home where he could have a private
study and reading. It's very useful because it's time saving skill and it helps student to
remember things better and it's good for revision.Looking at a few key words and sentences
in his notebook, he could remember the whole lecture and lesson. It help also to improve
his own written style because most of what's written down is on his own words.
Moreover;Note taking could have many forms. It can be a mind mapping where student
draw a map that would guide him when he review all materials, in which he records all the
information in a way that can be understood or a tree diagram that represents all ideas
from a lecture or reading and how they are related. I can imagine student taking note as an
artist ,the latter uses few colors to draw a beautiful sunset scene, and the student could
draw an amazing and complete picture of the whole lecture in his mind using few,well‐
organized key words written on his notebook.
As a conclusion, a High motivated student who manages and schedules his own
time,and he always takes notes in lectures or during revision time,would achieve a great
academic success. And he can also use other effective study skills as writing summaries,
working in groups and outlining in order to be successful in his studies and achieve his
own goals.
By : Rahma Kaffa.