The document provides various active studying tips across different learning styles: visual, auditory, read/write, and kinesthetic. It suggests techniques such as drawing diagrams, recording lectures, summarizing notes, and engaging in discussions. These strategies aim to enhance understanding and retention of information while studying.

1. Tips for Active Studying
Visual Learning
• Draw diagrams and charts to help
your understanding as you take
notes
• Explain concepts by drawing simple
pictures or diagrams instead of
using words
• Use colorhighlighters, pens, or post-
it notes to mark up your notes and
textbook
• Use flash cards to study facts and
concepts (add pictures on the cards)
• Watch YouTube videos or films to
explore topics
Auditory Learning

2. • Ask your professor if you can record
lectures, in addition to taking notes,
and listen to the lectures later
• Read aloud to study, and summarize
out loud
• Form study groups, or meet with a
classmate to discuss
• Record facts and concepts on your
phone and listen to them over and
over
• Have a friend quiz you
Read/Write Learning
• Summarize, paraphrase, or create a
PowerPoint presentation of your
notes
• Use or create your own study guides

3. • Take notes on a computer, in the
margins, or on post-it notes as you
read the textbook (find and practice
answers to the end-of-chapter
questions)
• Anticipate test questions, create
and take your own practice tests, or
study with Quizlet
Kinesthetic Learning
• Ask questions in class and
participate in discussion
• Study while walking or pacing, while
riding an exercise bike, or on a
treadmill
• Go to professors’ office hours to
discuss notes, to the labs, or to
group study sessions
• Role play, recreate scenarios, use
case studies, work out problems, or
conduct experiments to learn
• Make and use flash cards and

4. practice quizzes