'How Do I?' Links           

-Test Preparation

• COMPASS™ placement exam  sample questions
• Learning Express Library
• Nursing Test Prep Review
• Nursing dosage problems

-Math

• Mathworld

-English Skills

• English-Zone

-Improving your grammar

• Dr. Grammar
• English Grammar
• Purdue-grammar review

-Enhancing your Vocabulary

• Tips for Improving Vocabulary
• http://www.improvingvocabulary.org/

-Writing Skills

• OWL at Purdue
• Sample APA Experimental Paper
• Sample MLA Paper

 -Reading & Critical Thinking Skills

• Allyn & Bacon Companion Website-click 'Select a topic'
• Web English
• Criticalreading.com

• Ten Tips You Need to Survive College
• Getting the Most from Taking Notes
• Getting the Most from Reading Your Textbook
• How Successful Students Prepare for Tests
• Strategies for Taking Any Tests
• Checklist for Discussion or Essay Tests
• Reasons to Examine a Returned Test
• Memory Principles
• Setting Goals
• Learning Styles Hemispheric Dominance
  • Answers and brief explanation of inventory
• Learning Styles Sensory Modes
• VARK (Sensory Modes Questionnaire)
• Math Study Skills Inventory
• Jensen's Equation for Optimal Learning

*The contents of the above links are from Dr. Carolyn Hopper's Practicing College Study Skills: Strategies for Success  3rd edition, to be published 2003, Houghton Mifflin Company. The use of the materials are by permission from the author.