Studying is a skill, and undergraduates often ask me for studying best-practices. There exists a few study resources for UCSD undergraduates taking classes within the Department of Psychology.

The Department of Psychology has a page dedicated to the most effective studying techniques (according to research) as well as links to various resources (e.g., workshops, etc.) that are available to undergraduates. That webpage also contains additional links to tutoring resources on campus.

If a student is actively enrolled in my Memory & Amnesia course there are a few additional places I may refer students.

On the first day of class, I go over the types of test questions that may appear on exams along with the level of studying that may correspond to each question type. Additionally, the writers of their course textbook created a question bank for students to test their knowledge of the reading material. A link to that textbook question bank exists within their copy of the textbook in the preface. Lastly, if a student wants more in-depth information on various study strategies and the research underlying them, I would point them to Chapter 5 “Learning” within their required course textbook. The UCSD Department of Psychology’s webpage on study strategies is informed by much of the same research.