Front Cover -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Who Needs Study Skills? -- Common Core Connections -- Learning Styles -- Focus on Learning Styles -- Learning Styles & You -- Left/Right Brain Self-Assessment -- Left/Right Brain Dominance Characteristics -- Suggested Aids for Left/Right Brain Learners -- Learning Modalities -- Self-Assessment of Modality Strengths -- Characteristics of Learning Styles -- Suggested Aids for Learning Modalities -- Elements for Better Learning -- Some Facts on Learning Styles -- Time Management & Organization Skills -- Focus on Time Management & Organization -- Time Management -- How Well Do You Study? -- Study-Habits Inventory -- Eliminating Excuses -- Organize Your Materials! -- Hints for Getting Organized -- Handy Supply Checklist -- The Wonders of Color Coding -- Use a Daily Assignment Sheet -- Attacking an Assignment -- Assignment Sheet -- What to Do If You Missed an Assignment -- Take Control: Use a "To Do" List -- Use a Monthly Calendar -- Sample: Monthly Calendar -- Use a Monthly Assignment Calendar in Your Binder -- Monthly Assignment Calendar -- Study Time -- Scheduling Your Study Time -- Sample: Daily Schedule -- Rules for Study Time: The Backbone of Success -- Appropriate Study-Time Activities -- Study-Time Warmup -- Study-Smart Vocabulary -- Study-Smart Vocabulary Form -- Weekly Review -- Weekly Review (All Courses) -- Before-You-Leave-School Checklist -- Causes of Poor Concentration -- Good Habits for Better Concentration -- I'm Done-Now What? -- Target the Problems & Prescribe the Solutions -- Study-Prescription Worksheet -- Great Study Tips -- Steps to Easier Learning -- Note-Taking Skills -- Focus on Note-Taking Skills -- Overview of Note-Taking Skills -- Note-Taking Skills -- Steps to Better Note-Taking -- Why We Don't Listen -- Listening Skills.

Personal Shorthand System -- Sample: Personal Shorthand System -- Super Note-Taking System -- Instructions for Super Note-Taking -- Sample: Note-Taking Form -- Note-Taking Form -- Text Note-Taking -- Identify Text Note-Taking Problems -- Hints for Better Text Note-Taking -- Lecture Note-Taking -- Identify Lecture Note-Taking Problems -- Hints for Better Lecture Note-Taking -- Teacher Inventory -- The Magic of Flash Cards -- How to Edit and Review Notes -- Constructing Study Sheets: Dump & Pile System -- Creating a Graphic Organizer -- Sample: Pizza Graphic Organizer -- How to Study a Graphic Organizer -- Graphic Organizer "Mind Map" -- Graphic Organizer 1 -- Graphic Organizer 2 -- Graphic Organizer 3: Cycle -- Graphic Organizer 4: Common Characteristics -- Graphic Organizer 5: Timeline -- Graphic Organizer 6: Tree #1 -- Graphic Organizer 7: Biography -- Graphic Organizer 8: Tree Outline -- Student Study Guide -- Note Cards -- The Divided Page -- Literature Note-Taking Method -- Enumerative -- Sequential -- Cause/Effect -- Comparison/Contrast -- Description -- Reading Skills -- Focus on Reading Skills -- Reading -- Determining Reading Purpose -- Five Different Reading Rates -- How to Skim -- How to Find the Main Idea -- Signal Words -- Surveying the Textbook -- Power Reading -- Power-Reading System -- SQ3R -- SQ3R ... with Adaptations -- SQ3R Chart -- Important Comprehension Skills -- Reading Graphics -- What Slows You Down & How to Improve -- Hints for Effective Reading -- When the Reading Is Hard -- Memory -- Focus on Memory -- Your Memory -- Types of Memory -- Facts about Memory -- Memory -- Memory Traps -- When You Want to Memorize... -- In Review -- Mnemonics: Take One ... and Use It! -- Mnemonics/Strategies for Improving Memory -- Steps to Aid Memory -- How to Study a Foreign Language -- Using Your Senses -- Test-Taking Skills.

Focus on Test-Taking Skills -- Becoming "Test-wise" -- Reasons for Poor Performance on Tests -- Test Anxiety ... and How to Free Yourself -- Symptoms of Test Anxiety -- Strategies to Stop Test Anxiety -- Preparation Before the Test -- Test Review Sheet -- Forming a Study Group -- Test-Taking Tools -- List of "Qualifiers" -- Intelligent Guessing Strategies -- Cramming-Even Though You Shouldn't -- Just Before the Test -- During the Test -- Multiple-Choice Tests -- True and False Tests -- Matching Tests -- Fill-in-the-Blank Tests -- Number Tests -- Essay Tests -- Essay Direction Words -- Essay Answer Format -- Open-Book Tests -- Take-Home Tests -- Steps to Test Taking -- After the Test -- Etc. -- Focus on Etc -- Be an Active Learner -- Improve Your Thinking Skills -- Problem Solving -- Steps to Problem Solving -- Teacher Conferences -- Critical Brainpower Skills -- Thinking ... Odds and Ends -- Getting a Handle on Stress -- Super Spelling System -- Spelling Rules -- Some Tips for Parents: How to Help at Home -- Help! My Child Won't Study! -- Plan of Attack for Independent Study -- Acknowledgments.