Skills for Academic Success

Skills for Academic Success (SAS)

Academic skills support and advice for all students from foundation to PhD.
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Study Guides & videos

Welcome to Team SAS!

Our experienced advisors offer help with all the essential study skills, from essay planning to editing, and revision techniques to exam strategy.

With 1-to-1 appointments, workshops, downloadable study guides and our SkillBuilder videos, you'll find help that matches your ideal learning style.

You can book an online appointment or an in-person session in Canterbury using the link below. 

Please note: we have moved premises at Canterbury and we can now be found in Rutherford Extension.

New to Kent?

Contact us to find out what we can do to help you succeed in your studies.

Returning? 

Get back in touch! Book an appointment, check out our workshops for this term, scroll down to view our NEW SkillBuilder, 'At-a-glance', video shorts for all your study needs!


Group Appointments

We also offer group appointments for two to four students at 3pm on Tuesdays in term-time. You can commission a bespoke study skills session using the link below, and emailing us at sas@kent.ac.uk to tell us what you'd like to cover.

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Events and workshops

The Skills for Academic Success team provide a wide range of events and workshops for students both on campus and online. These include skills and numeracy workshops as well as exams and revision events. 

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Peer Assisted Learning

Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) Leaders are experienced students that can support your learning and help build your confidence as you begin new modules.

Perhaps you could offer your time to help support other students through the PAL scheme? 

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SkillsBuilder videos & downloadable study guides

Welcome to the home of our study guides, created by the Skills for Academic Success (SAS) staff. We have the SkillsBuilder: at a Glance series of short introductory videos on the essential university study skills, and our downloadable guides to read. 

SAS learning advisors also offer 1-to-1 appointments and workshops throughout the year. 

SkillBuilder at a Glance video
Downloadable Study Guides

SkillBuilder: at a Glance video guides

Here you can find videos created by Skills for Academic Success - SAS - designed to empower you to improve your studies. Browse the topics you are interested in or just work through them all.

Videos can be watched in full screen by pressing "YouTube" on each video. There you'll also find our full-length tutorials, if you want to dig a little deeper.

Scroll to the bottom of this page for even more downloadable resources to print and read.


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Downloadable study guides and more

The written materials are in Word format for you to edit for accessibility. 

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Study skills

  • Introduction to undergraduate study
  • Personal development planning
  • Learning from lectures
  • Learning from seminars
  • Time management
  • Effective notetaking & notemaking
  • Effective reading
  • Independent learning
  • Feeling good & doing well
  • Relaxation exercises
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    Assignment skills

  • Academic writing style
  • Plagiarism & how to avoid it
  • What is research?
  • Reflective writing
  • Critical thinking
  • Critical book & article reviews
  • Grammar, spelling & punctuation
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    Completing assignments

  • Understanding essay questions  
  • Essay writing
  • Editing & proof-reading
  • Reports
  • Undergraduate dissertations
  • Literature reviews
  • Oral presentations
  • Group work
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    Assessments and exams

  • Learning from feedback
  • Revision planning and strategies
  • Exam techniques and strategies
  • Essays in exams
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    Postgraduate & Research

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    SkillBuilders recorded video guides

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    Apprentices

  • How to succeed at distance study
  • How to be an independent learner
  • How to think critically
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    Planners & Schedules

    Blank study planners and weekly schedules to print off or edit.

    Resit, Resubmit... Relaunch!

    Don't panic...your goal awaits you. A poor academic performance can be often down to technique rather than a lack of knowledge. As such, Resits and Resubmissions can offer an good learning opportunity. Do remember that a "resubmission" MUST be different to your original work, otherwise you risk self-plagiarism. You can book a 1-to-1 appointment with one of our advisors using the link below.
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    Revision planning and strategies (study guide)
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    Planning your time ahead of a resit (video)
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    Resits: revision skills (video)
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    Resits: exam techniques (video)
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    Essay writing in exams (video)
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    Coursework resits - responding to feedback (video)
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    Planning time ahead of a resit - at a glance (video)
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    Learning from feedback - at a glance (video)

    Contact the Skills for Academic Success team

    To book online appointments visit this page.

    Canterbury

    We are based upstairs in Rutherford College Extension. 

    Email: sas@kent.ac.uk

    Telephone: 01227 824016

    Medway

    We are based on the second floor of the Medway Building M2-31.

    Email: sas@kent.ac.uk

    Telephone: 01634 888884

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    Meet the team