Test to Measure Study Skills and Learning Techniques
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ScribdTranslationsSTUDY SKILLS AND LEARNING STRATEGIES
PURPOSE : Recognize your study skills
ACTIVITY : Complete the following questionnaire, then interpret your results and
recognize the level of use of your learning strategies
QUESTIONNAIRE*
Strategies for conducting an effective study
Please circle your answer, YES or NO, which best indicates what you do. You should only circle the
question mark when you cannot decide between YES or NO. The question mark means “sometimes”
or “not always.”
ITS MATERIAL CONDITIONS
Yeah ? No
1. Do you have a fixed place at home, reserved for studying?
2. Is the place where you study away from noise (TV, radio, cars, etc.)? Yeah ? No
3. Is the place where you study free of objects that may distract you? Yeah ? No
4. Does your study table have enough space? Yeah ? No
HOW DO YOU DISTRIBUTE YOUR TIME?
Yeah ? No
5. Do you have a fixed schedule for studying, resting, free time, etc.?
6. Do you usually comply with them? Yeah ? No
7. Do you study outside of class hours at least five days a week? Yeah ? No
8. Do you have a schedule for how much time you plan to spend studying each
Yeah ? No
day?
9. Do you distribute your study time between different activities and subjects,
Yeah ? No
according to their length and difficulty?
YOUR PERSONAL ATTITUDE
Yeah ? No
10. Do you enjoy attending classes?
11. Do you participate in class by taking initiative and completing
Yeah ? No
assignments?
12. Do you look at the teacher when explaining? Yeah ? No
13. Does the teacher's explanation continue to be interesting and clarify
Yeah ? No
doubts?
14. Do you take notes every day of what you are asked to study and the
Yeah ? No
activities you have to complete?
15. Do you care about your exam grades? Yeah ? No
16. Do you study without being reminded? Yeah ? No
HOW TO STUDY
Yeah ? No
17. Are you consistent in your studies?
18. Do you think you know how to study? Yeah ? No
19. Do you read the whole subject (or part of it) before studying it? Yeah ? No
20. Do you easily find the main ideas of what you read? Yeah ? No
21. Do you underline important ideas and data? Yeah ? No
22. Do you consult the dictionary when you don't know what a word means or
Yeah ? No
are unsure how to spell it?
23. Do you spend part of your time studying on memorizing? Yeah ? No
24. Do you write down important data that is difficult to remember? Yeah ? No
HOW DOES YOUR WORK?
25. Do you make sure you fully understand what you need to do before you Yeah ? No
start working?
26. Do you consult any books other than those provided? Yeah ? No
27. Do you make every effort to write your exercises clearly? Yeah ? No
28. Do you check the spelling, cleanliness and wording of what you write? Yeah ? No
29. Are you up to date with the activities you need to do? Yeah ? No
YOUR EXAMS
30. Do you know with a fair degree of accuracy what you need to know at the Yeah ? No
end of an assessment and in each subject?
31. Are you relatively calm when you start an exam? Yeah ? No
32. When you study for an exam, do you review the notes and outlines you
Yeah ? No
made previously?
33. Are you informed about what the exam will be like: oral, written, short
Yeah ? No
questions, essay, etc.?
INTERPRETATION:
To calculate the total points obtained, please note that:
YES it is worth a point? It is worth 0.5 points It is NOT worth 0 points
If you get less than 32 points, your study strategies are poor. If the total is greater than 32 and less
than 46, you have strategies that can and should be improved. If your score is 46, but you generally
know how to study, these learning strategies will be very useful to increase your performance.
