Teaches students how they can create and stick to an effective study program based on their own needs.

Study skills and test preparation are the themes of this CD-ROM. Utilizing all of the benefits of multimedia learning systems, this exciting program stimulates students with fast-paced video clips, colorful screens, and the power of interaction. Users are given the option of exploring a specific skill or technique in which they need improvement or completing the full program for a detailed lesson on how they can improve their study habits and grades. They may then return to individual sections of the program to review information or re-execute exercises.

The CD-ROM is organized into two separate modules: Learning Skills and Test Preparation. In the Learning Skills module, students learn how to create a program which is tailored for their own specific needs. Additionally, they learn proven techniques that will help any student learn, understand, and retain information. Through video clips and on-screen examples, students learn how to be relaxed and prepared for test time—whatever the test-taking situation.

Subjects covered include:

• Learning styles (visual, auditory, tactile)

• Prime study times (the times that work for them)

• Assignment notebooks/calendars (with an option to print their own calendar)

• Note-taking techniques (mapping, outlining, cram cards)

• Reading (driving, flying, walking, SQ3R)

• Listening (the D.R.I.V.E. technique)

• Remembering (A.C.R.O.N.Y.M. = Acronyms, Cram Cards, Rhythm & Rhyme, Over & Over, Nonsense stories to remember by, WHY this is important, say it in the Mirror)

• Getting to the point of an assignment.

Test-taking module covers:

• 4 A’s to test taking (Advanced Preparation, Ask, Attitude, After)

• Objective tests (true/false, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blanks, matching)

• Subjective tests (organizing information into essay form).

Each section includes video and audio along with exercises to help students discover information about themselves or to reinforce and put into practice discussed tips.

A Cambridge Educational Production.

One Windows CD-ROM. Macintosh version also available.