This document provides guidance on effective study skills. It discusses factors that influence student achievement, including intelligence, academic aptitude, socioeconomic background, desire to learn, and self-image. It classifies basic study skills into three parts: incoming or receptive skills, synthesizing or reflective skills, and reporting or expressive skills. Incoming skills involve determining purpose and details. Synthesizing skills relate new material to prior knowledge and identify needed information. Reporting skills distinguish different types of communication and identify purpose and audience. The document also discusses Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, which include logical-mathematical, linguistic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, musical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, and natural