Studying for Exams

This week all Kilbourne students will have semester exams.  Exams are an important part of your grade, but they also provide you the opportunity to practice a more realistic glimpse of what testing will be like in college and helps you to showcase your semester's worth of knowledge.

Interestingly, for many high school students, you don't yet know how to study.  The challenging part of studying is that what works best for one person may not be what works best for someone else. And, even if you figure out what works best for you in one particular subject area, that still doesn't mean that this particular strategy will be most effective for a different subject.  And, while, the week before exams isn't the ideal time to figure out what study strategies tend to work best for you, it is better late than never.

The best news is that there are lots of different ideas and strategies that you can use to develop a study strategy that works for you! For what it is worth, think of learning to study like you think of learning to run. You already know some skills that have helped you to know how to study and to be successful - just like you already know how to run, but if you practice and really train at running, you can improve significantly and studying will work just the same. Keep working at your study strategies, practice and continue refining your technique until you find the perfect combination that works for you.

If you are struggling to find strategies to try out, I encourage you to visit the WKHS Counselor website as we have lots of examples there.  You can also work with your teachers and the Academic Assistant's in the Teaching and Learning Center as they have a wealth of knowledge and helpful tips for study strategies that can help you in their particular subject areas as well as studying overall.  And, last, but not least, you can also stop in and see me and I can help brainstorm ideas that you could try.