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Exam Preparation and Revision Workshops
“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success”
-Alexander Graham Bell
With semester 2 exams on the horizon, beat the exam blues and join one of our revision workshops to help improve your performance and manage the pressure. These workshops are facilitated by the Counselling and Wellbeing Team in Student Services and are designed to support you through the various demands of the exam season by looking at practical revision strategies, how to cope with exam stress and most importantly, how to give yourself time to relax in your revision timetable!
Keep calm and master your exam preparation
How prepared do you feel for exams? Do you find yourself panic-revising? This workshop will help you to take charge and develop effective revision techniques by focussing on better preparation. Find out how to reduce test anxiety, improve confidence and feel better prepared for your exams, both psychologically and physically.
Thursday 14th April 13:00 – 14:00 – BOOK HEREExam Revision: How to relax when you don’t have time for it
Time out can help you to be more effective and regain a sense of calm, concentration and focus. Look at taking a short space of time out and adding ‘relaxation’ to your revision schedule. Learn practical relaxation exercises which promote stress reduction, reduce anxiety and aid concentration and focus.
Weds 20th April 13:00 – 14:00 – BOOK HEREFurther Support
Don’t forget, we still have a range of Study Skills and Information Skills workshops in the semester 2 Uni Skills workshop programme. Face to face academic support can also be accessed by visiting the Ask desk on the 1st floor of the University library (weekdays from 9am to 7pm).
If you’re working from home or based at one of our other sites, we also provide a suite of online guides and interactive toolkits on the Uni Skills webpages. You can contact us directly for academic support via email [email protected] or by visiting Ask Us.
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Learning Services staff are Edge Hill students for the day!
This week 8 staff from Learning Services will join staff from across the University to find out what it’s like to be a student for the day! The aim of the Student For A Day project is for Edge Hill staff to get a better understanding of what it’s like to be a modern day student here at the University.
Learning Services staff will accompany a student for a full day and experience all aspects of University life. This will include lectures, library visits, use of other services such as food outlets, society activities etc, even going to lectures and seminars with them (although they won’t be writing any essays!).
A wide variety of staff from across the Service have volunteered to take part in the project to get a better insight into the student experience. Chris McCabe and Claire Hallworth from Customer Services, Joan Cullen from the SpLD team, Kate Johnson, Paul Reece, Michelle O’Connell and Louise Speakman from Academic Support and Meg Juss, Learning Technology Development Manager, are all looking forward to taking part.The project is being managed by a group of staff on the University’s Development of Potential programme. Our very own Help and Support Co-ordinator, Kathy Kinsella, is part of this years cohort and has been instrumental in getting the project off the ground. Kathy says “The Student for a Day project gives staff a unique opportunity to walk in the shoes of our students and develop a real life understanding from the student’s perspective. By capturing the participant’s insight on what aspects of the student experience work well and which areas can potentially be improved we hope to develop the delivery of our service going forward”
We wish our staff the best of luck!
Helen Jamieson, Customer Services Manager
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Eggcellent Easter Opening
‘Tis the season to eat chocolate…falala…no? Are we the only ones still thinking Christmas was only last week?
Well, at least we are heading in the right direction for summer but before we get too eggcited it’s time to talk Easter Opening at the University Library.
You will be glad to hear we will only be closed one day over the Easter period so you will have daily access to your library facilities, and resources, and we will be back to 24/7 in the shake of a bunny’s tail!
Easter Opening Times
24/7 will be taking a short break over Easter and we will be closing at midnight on Friday 18th, Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th March. And the week after Bank Holiday Monday looks like this…Wednesday 30th March – Friday 1st April 8am – 9pm
Saturday 2nd April 11am – 6pm
Sunday 3rd April 11am – 6pmOur normal opening hours will resume 8am on Monday 4th April straight back into 24/7 opening!
So why not indulge in the quiet time on campus and pay us a visit us throughout Easter break to take advantage of all we have to offer…
- Networked PCs, loanable laptops and free eduroam Wi-Fi
- Access to 200,000 items including books, journals and audio-visual resources
- Printing and photocopying
- Bookable individual and group study rooms
- Newly refurbished ground floor study and refreshment areas
- A range of study zones – group work, quiet work and silent study
- Access to help and support – staff will be available at the welcome desk
- 24/7 access to PCs in the LINC – available 365 days a year!
And remember you can always visit us virtually…
- eResources are available via our Learning Services web pages and Library Catalogue – you can access 97,000+ eBooks, 40,000+ eJournals and specialist subject resources 24/7.
- Contact Learning Services via our 24/7 Live Chat
- Search our knowledge base Ask Us for the answer to many common queries including using Turnitin, Harvard Referencing and much more.
- Get support with academic writing, assignment planning, critical thinking and much more via our Uni Skills offer.
- Give us a call on 01695 650800 during our opening hours.
Happy Easter from Learning Services! 🐰
