Study Skills For Dummies

by Doreen du Boulay

Students need to learn to manage their time, organise their studies, understand, learn, and convey a lot of information – and they need to learn to do it quickly. Whether you’re fresh out of school, or a mature student returning to education, you now don’t need to feel alone! With Study Skills For Dummies, you'll be given the know-how and confidence to achieve consistent results every time – and a lack of preparation will become a thing of the past. Discover how to excel Note-taking, speed-reading and essay-writing Improving your memory, critical thinking and analysis Using the internet to supplement study Exam skills and developing the best learning strategy to fit your specific needs and abilities

Genres: Nonfiction

380 pages, Paperback

First published March 30, 2009

Reviews

[Sara]

فقط قسمت‌های مورد نیازم از کتاب رو خوندم و کتاب رو کامل نخوندم.
همون قسمت ها برای چیزی که میخواستم خوب بود. کافی نبود اما خوب بود.

[Mehrsa]

Since I'm obsessed with learning new skills and also honing my learning skills, I was very enthusiastic about reading this book. I thought after finishing it I'd acquire many studying techniques that I wasn't aware of and therefore become an even bigger studying final boss lol. It turns out I was horribly wrong in my assessment. This book had almost nothing of use to share, and honestly, I think most people would have the same opinion about it.

The "No shit, Sherlock" award of this year goes to the genius author of this book. I bet he really thought he was doing something there. It is marvellous how someone could talk so much without really saying anything of actual value or novelty.

This is the first 'For Dummies' book I've read and I always assumed the title of this book franchise referred to its aim of making the subject matter so easy to understand that even dummies wouldn't have a problem dealing with these books. But it seems the author of this one took the title in a very literal sense.

I'm having trouble trying to understand who the main demographic for this book was. Because it seems that every person who has finished high school would already know everything written in here, yet this book is supposedly written for university students.

So it leaves me to conclude that the only target audience left for this book would be the medieval dudes who were teleported into our contemporary times by time machines and forced to get a college degree without any prior education. In such a case, you could simply present them with this book and tell them that it would suffice to teach them how books, schools, and education in general work.

Everything in this book was so preliminary, repetitive and downright common knowledge that I could barely keep myself from banging my head against the wall after each paragraph. I've never seen a bigger Captain Obvious than the author of this book. He infuriated me so much, this whole experience was absolute torture.

[Marylou]

Good

This book is written for university students in Great Britain. As an American way past college, it is hard for me to judge. I was hoping for more generalized information on learning. However if you are in the target audience, I can see this being very helpful.

[David Roberts]

The book I read to research this post was Study Skills for Dummies by Doreen du Boulay which is a very good book which I bought from kindle. A lot of this book is about going to college or university for the first time and the various problems connected with that, that can crop up. I have done courses at college quite a few times and so I think I can cope with most of the problems likely. One bit of advice I quite liked was if you are sharing a place with other students, you should take it in turns to cook and wash up. Cooking for several people isn't that much different to cooking for one and it gives you time you can spend studying when others are cooking and washing up. There is some stuff on memory in particularly loki which is if you have to remember a list like bullet points for a speech. You imagine you are in a roman villa and are exploring it. For the 1st item you imagine walking into the 1st room and picture the item in the room in the most outrageous way possible. This helps you remember it. You then try and link this item to the second item which will be in the 2nd room and you can remember a very long list in this way. They use a roman villa because they were very decadent and often were outrageous. You can pretend they have obtained unusual things from far flung parts of the empire.

[Evie]

it had some useful tips, but i was hoping for more information about how to concentrate on studying and avoid procrastinating and the only "tip" on the subject was "don't procrastinate!". yeah like i didn't know i shouldn't :P it had some good info though about how to get more from lectures and seminars and im going to try keeping a learning diary as the book suggested and see how it works out in the end.

[Adrian Lee]

In my opinion, the tips provided by the book are just too impractical to apply onto myself. For the time being, my undergraduate studies are focusing much on understanding fundamental topics for each subject and doing relevant exercises. However, some tips can anyway provide me insights in utilizing my time! So I'll look for the next much-more interesting book to polish up my study skills!

[Laura]

As per usual - LOVED this book... All hail the Dummies books