Useful links
Learning and success
The help center for Laval university students website offers a wealth of advice on work methods and learning strategies (time management, exam preparation, reading, memorization).
Learning support
Page of the Université de Montréal Student Success Support Centre site devoted to working methods. Numerous resources, exercises and questionnaires are made available.
www.cesar.umontreal.ca/apprentissage/index.htm
Working methods
University of Ottawa mentoring program. Covers a wide range of topics such as:
- concentration
- exam preparation
- the mémorization
- motivation
- time management
- note-taking
- stress management
- group work
Methods for learning
Course series broadcast on France 5. Aimed particularly at first-year students, it covers topics such as:
Des méthodes pour apprendre
- time management
- tools and techniques for getting'organised
- note-taking and how to use it
- group work
- communication
Methods of working through play
Game-based platform offering learning scenarios based on four key situations in the student's life: reading an exam question to answer it, digesting an exam answer, reading a lecture to make it your own and keeping track of a lecture by taking notes.
Common sense
Series of videos produced by the University of Quebec to raise awareness of good practice in searching for and using information on the Internet.
Quick read
Online test to calculate your reading speed.
A self-diagnosis of persistence and motivation for study
A self-diagnosis of persistence and motivation for university studies
www.usherbrooke.ca/passeport-diagnostic/index.html
Self-treatment of the tendency to procrastinate
Site in English from Carleton University (Canada). Good analysis of the procrastination phase or procrastination tendency. Click on blank Help & Intervention.
Learning styles preférences
A test that allows you to determine your learning style in 18 questions. Well done, but the limited number of questions makes it a little less valid. In English.
www.mtsu.edu/~studskl/hd/learn.html
The Study Skills Help Page - Strategies for Success
Middle Tennessee State University website. Can be considered one of the good sites related to study skills. Many links.
Work methods and time management from the University at Buffalo
Time management - Examinations anxiety - Study habits - Preventing perfectionism - Overcoming procrastination (tendance à reporter) - Study skills. Well done.
ub-counseling.buffalo.edu/stressmanagement.shtml
Methods of working and learning
Provides pdf documents on note-taking, reading, concentration, multiple-choice exams, group work, presentations, exams and memory.
Tips for taking multiple-choice exams
To avoid major strategic errors.
www.westmont.edu/_academics/pages/departments/psychology/pages
Learning
Site from the University of Lille that looks at working methods from a theoretical perspective. Includes numerous links and bibliographical references.