• Study skills: one-minute tips

  Check out our series of one-minute animations exploring revision tips, beating procrastination, what’s involved in a remote exam and other study skills.

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• What is a remote exam?

  Remote exams are end-of-module assessments that you take in a location of your choice, using your own equipment. Find out more about them in this short animation.

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• Top tips for exam revision and preparation

  How can you best prepare for an exam? This short animation gives you some top revision tips.

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• Beating procrastination with the Pomodoro Technique

  Short bursts of action can help motivate you while you study. This short animation tells you more about the Pomodoro Technique.

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• Finding pockets of time to study

  Could you study while you wait, travel or do chores? This animation explains how to make the most of your pockets of time throughout the day.

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• Feeling more comfortable speaking English

  Overthinking pronunciation and grammar can be stressful when you speak English as a non-native language. This animation explains how making mistakes is a crucial part of language learning.

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• Succeed with learning

  This course is for people who want to feel more confident about their learning skills. Informal in approach, the course builds on each person's own qualities, knowledge and skills to develop a deeper understanding of the nature of learning and of their own potential. It introduces some core ideas about learning and academic study, and some ...

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• Revision and examinations

  Do you get stressed at the thought of an examination? Does the idea of revision fill you with dread? This free course, Revision and examinations, will provide a host of tips to help you improve your revision and examination techniques and enable you to manage your time effectively by creating a timetable for your revision.

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• Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits

  This free course, Multidisciplinary study: the values and benefits, explores the advantages of studying more than one subject and will help you to decide if multidisciplinary study is for you. Featuring videos with students on the Open University’s ‘Open’ qualifications, you will learn about the unique skills you can gain from studying a ...

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