COURSE OVERVIEW:

Welcome to the Advanced Study Skills & Techniques course. This program will equip you with the skills and knowledge to study more efficiently, retain information for longer, and produce higher-quality work under real-world time pressures and assessment conditions. Throughout this course, you will learn how to select and adapt proven learning strategies so that your study time becomes more focused, organised, and effective.

This course begins by exploring why study skills are important and how they influence long-term academic and professional success. This section explains the different types of study you might undertake, the reasons we study in the first place, and the main ways to improve learning skills so that effort is directed where it has the greatest impact.

Understanding how learning actually happens is then examined so that you can tailor strategies to the way your brain works. This section explains how we learn, introduces the VAK learning styles model, and outlines specific study skill options for visual, auditory, and kinaesthetic learners so that you can start matching methods to your preferred ways of processing information.

Memory tools and encoding strategies are then explored to help you retain and recall information more reliably. This section clarifies the differences between acrostics, acronyms, analogies, and mnemonics, and sets out the three fundamental principles that underlie effective mnemonic techniques so you can build stronger memory hooks for complex material.

Reading and comprehension strategies are then examined to transform how you handle study materials. This section explains how to read materials when studying, how to improve your reading speed without losing comprehension, and how to use different reading styles—including speed reading, skim reading, and scanning—so that you can adjust your approach depending on your purpose and the difficulty of the text.

Information reduction and organisation techniques are then explored to turn large volumes of content into manageable, meaningful structures. This section explains condensing and summarising methods, the use of keywords, and visual structuring tools such as the tree structure technique, spider diagrams, mind maps, concept maps, and cue methods so that important ideas are captured and linked in ways that are easier to review.

Note-making and consolidation methods are then examined to strengthen understanding after initial reading. This section explains how to take effective notes, how to use the “Rewriting Your Notes” method to deepen processing, and how to apply structured systems such as the skeleton prose technique and the Cornell note-taking system so that your notes become powerful revision and thinking tools rather than raw transcripts.

Book-based study frameworks and planning techniques are then explored to give you repeatable processes for working through written material. This section explains how to study from books using the PQRST technique and the SQ3R technique, how to develop a SQ3R plan that fits your workload, and how to prioritise what you study using tools such as the Traffic Light approach and other visual methods so that your time is spent on the most critical topics.

Memory enhancement methods and multi-sensory study strategies are then examined to strengthen recall and engagement. This section explains how to use the Method of Loci, the Peg/Hook system, and other visual approaches, and how to incorporate auditory methods and a pre-recording checklist so that you can listen back to key material and reinforce learning through multiple channels.

Question analysis, written response frameworks, and integrated study strategies are then brought together to improve your performance in assignments and exams. This section explains how to break down and answer questions systematically, how to use the Black-Red-Green method and its stages, the PEE method and its stages, and the Seven Point Scale for Perfect Paragraphs method to structure high-quality responses, and how the ASPIRE Study Strategy method can be used to integrate planning, action, reflection, and improvement across all of your study activities. By the end of this course, you will be able to choose and combine advanced study techniques, organise your time and materials more effectively, and approach learning tasks with a clear, confident strategy that consistently improves your results.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

By the end of this course, you will be able to understand:

• Why are study skills important?
• The types of study
• The reasons we study
• The main ways to improve learning skills
• How do we learn?
• The study skill options for visual leaners
• The study skill options for auditory learners
• The study skill options for kinaesthetic learners
• The VAK learning styles model
• The differences between acrostics, acronyms, analogies and mnemonics
• The three fundamental principles that underlay mnemonics
• How to read materials when studying?
• How to improve your reading speed?
• The Speed Reading style
• The Skim reading style
• The Scanning style
• The condensing and summarising methods
• The Keywords methods
• The Tree structure technique
• The Spider diagrams
• The Mind maps technique
• The Concept maps technique
• The Cue methods
• The Note taking method
• The Rewriting Your Notes method
• The Skeleton prose technique
• The Cornell note taking system
• How to study from books?
• The PQRST technique
• The SQ3R technique
• How to develop a SQ3R plan?
• How to prioritise what you study?
• The Traffic Light approach
• The visual methods
• The Method of Loci
• The Peg / Hook System
• The auditory methods
• The pre-recording checklist
• How to break down and answer questions?
• The Black-Red-Green method and its stages
• The PEE method and its stages
• The Seven Point Scale for Perfect Paragraphs method
• The ASPIRE Study Strategy method

COURSE DURATION:

The typical duration of this course is approximately 2-3 hours to complete. Your enrolment is Valid for 12 Months. Start anytime and study at your own pace.

ASSESSMENT:

A simple 10-question true or false quiz with Unlimited Submission Attempts.

CERTIFICATION:

Upon course completion, you will receive a customised digital “Certificate of Completion”.