Jose Arockiam MBA., St. Joseph's Institute of Management, Tiruchirappalli-2 Tamil Nadu, India.

1. Jose. A
12PBA202
(JIM) St. Joseph’s Institute of
Management

2. Study Skills

Study – Meaning
 Learn new information, formulate it into knowledge
and apply it in order to develop new skills.
 Study Skills – Meaning
 Study Skills are the strategies used to improve the
learning ability. It helps in enhancing the potential of
a person by improving his ability to read. Study
Skills are essential to select and organize information
when overwhelmed with various information

4. Habits for Good Study
• Time Management
• Self-discipline and Self Discovery
• Concentration and Memorization
• Organization

5. • Study Skills involve research and
assimilation of information. It is used
to make research on a topic by
gathering and organizing information.
Reading can be of any form such as
an oral presentation, graphs, maps,
tables, or diagrams, a poster, a
model, or a design etc.

6. Way of studying
 Everyone studies in a different way.
 One person may be comfortable with a
technique but another person may not feel
comfortable with same technique.
 He may prefer to be comfortable with
another technique.
 Everyone has to choose his method of
studies.

7. ELEMENTS OF LEARNING
 Knowing
 Comprehending
 Applying
 Analyzing
 Synthesizing
 Evaluating

8. Characteristics of Critical Readers
• They will be clear with the purpose of study
• They resist manipulation
• They seek for more clarity and avoid confusion
• They frame questions on all dimensions
• They conceptualize with their own words
• They relate the concepts with other ideas
• They are intellectually independent

9. FIVE STEP STRATEGY TO STUDY
 SQ3R is a five step strategy that can be used while reading any text.
SQ3R stands for a step constituting the strategy. Reading and recording
helps to get a clear understanding of the text and also to grasp the
message of the text. These five steps in the strategy when followed
sequentially will help to satisfy the true purpose of reading.
SQ3R Stands for
 S-SURVEY
 Q-QUESTION
 R-READ
 R-RECALL/RECITE/WRITE
 R-REVIEW

10.  SURVEY
Surveying is the first and foremost step in
this strategy. It is done before reading the
entire text. It helps to get an overall idea about
the topic. It also includes the pictorial part of
the text, tabular representations, statistical or
graphical representation of data if any or
captions that are highlighted.

11.  Question
Form questions using why, how, what,
when, where, who under heading. It is a
thinking skills. Headings tries to speak about
many issues, form questions for each issue
and this will develop the eagerness to get
the answer for all the questions.

12. READ
Read the entire text given under each
heading. Be clear with the purpose of
study. Get the main idea from each
paragraph and extract the important
details related to the main idea. If not
clear with any sentence, read it twice
or thrice slowly to understand it.

13. Styles of Reading
• Study Reading
It is used when the material is difficult and is of higher
level of comprehension. It is essential to read word by
word to have more understanding and to have better
clarity.
• Browsing
Looking the structure of the text, proportion of diagrams
and the locating the summery and conclusion part.

14. • Skimming
It is used when it is enough to get an overall idea
about the topic. This includes only the major
information in each paragraph and leaves the
other supportive and explanatory part.
• Scanning
It is used when it is required to locate a piece of
information that you already knew from the text.
The information can be a number or a word or any
specific fact.

15. MARK & UNDERLINE THE TEXT
 Number the important ideas in margin
 Underline or highlight the main topic related to
your study
 Underline the unknown vocabulary or new
phrases that you have come across
 Use market to highlight the major information
leaving the supporting information

16. KWL CHART
It is used while reading any text. This chart consists of three
columns.
BEFORE READING THE TEXT
FIRST COLUMN
What already know about the topic?
 Read the title of the topic, make sure whether have heard of
the topic and are familiar about it.
 Then recall the information that have already gathered about
the title.

17. SECOND COLUMN
What want to knew about the topic?
 Write the areas that you are eager to know in the
second column in the question format. Write the
questions that would have aroused previously when
you became familiar about the topic.

18. AFTER READING THE TEXT
THIRD COLUMN
What learned from the text?
 Answers for the questions will be in the second column one by
one.
 Check whether all questions are answered.
 It is helps to check whether now familiar about the various
aspects of the topic and also to know that extent learnt from the
text.
 This column can also include extra information that gathered while
reading apart from the answers for the framed questions.

19. K- What you already KNOW about the topic
W- What you WANT to know about the
topic
L- What you learned about the topic
K W L

20. Note taking is a practice of recording the
information gathered from any source. It is
when you write whatever hear or read. This
id done when the subject is new to you and
hard to follow and understand. It can be an
oral an oral lecture, visuals, presentations,
books and written manuals.
Note taking

21. TYEPES OF NOTE TAKING:
Linear Note
taking
Note Taking
Non Linear
Note taking

22. RECITE/WRITE/RECALL
o Recall the content you have read.
o Recall the main headings and the
basic concepts.
o Recall the graphs or any kind of
diagrammatic presentations.

23. METHODS TO FROM
ABBREVATIONS
 Write the first few letters of the longer
words.
E.G Word Abbreviation
Different Diff
 Write the word leaving the vowels
E.G Word Abbreviation
Quality Qlty
 Write the first and last letter o the word
E.G Word Abbreviation
Highty Ht

24. USING FLASH CARDS:
1) Make flash cards
2) Write the information on the card
3) Make flash cards attractive
4) Review the cards
STRATEGIES TO REMEMBER
INFORMATION:

25. USING PEG WORDS:
NUMBER WORD PEG WORD THINGS TO MENTAL IMAGE
REMEMBER
One Gun Motivated interest A person’s
motivated interest
is to shoot birds.
Two Shoe Selectivity A person is very
selective in shoes .
Three Free Oscillation Imagine a
pendulum freely
hanging and
moving to and fro

26. SMART STUDY STRATEGY
 Word smart
 Number smart
 Picture smart
 Body smart
 Music smart
 People smart
 Self smart

27. A STUDY SYSTEM
ASPIRE
A: Approach/attitude/arrange:
o Study with a positive attitude.
o You are going to learn something new.
o This will help to clarify your doubts.
S: Select/survey/scan:
o Select the material you want to real
o Survey it to get an overall idea
o Scan them to extract the information

28. P: Piece together the arts:
Piece together all the information
I: Investigate/inquire/insect:
Investigate other sources of information
Inquire with experts to get more clarity.
Inspect the ideas you understood

29. R: Reexamine/reflect/relay:
o Reexamine whether you are clear
o Reflect it by applying in practical situations
o Relay: make sure whether you are able to explain it to
others
Evaluate/examine/explore:
o Evaluate your results
o Examine whether there is progress in your performance.
o Explore what must be done to improve yourself further.

30. ASPECTS TO CONSIDER
 Time of the day
 Grouping
 Posture
 Temperature
 Sound

31. EXERCISE
Checklist to make effective study
Yes No
I. There is no distractions like TV, phone etc
II. There is rare interruptions by people
III. It's a quiet location
IV. I rarely interact with people when I study here
V. I have all facilities like furniture and lighting
VI. All items in this location are related to my work
VII. The temperature and air circulation is conducive for
studying

32. viii.I have books and internet
facilities for reference.
ix. I follow my schedule
x. I approach my studying with a
positive attitude.