Tips and Resources for Psychology Students

Feeling overwhelmed by assignments, class readings, exam prep and impending deadlines in your psychology courses? Instead of stressing, start looking for some ways to deal with your busy schedule. By taking a balanced approach, you can lower your stress levels, improve your grades and accomplish more each day.

Some strategies that can help:

• Create a study calendar detailing tasks you need to accomplish and due dates for each project.
• Apply some tips for studying psychology to help you learn the materials and better budget your time.
• Learn how to approach multiple choice tests in order to maximize your study time and earn a better score.
• Struggling to come up with a topic for a research paper, essay or lab report? Take advantage of these useful tips for finding ideas for psychology papers.
• Still stressing? Check out this helpful article on reducing student stress from Elizabeth Scott, M.S., About.com's guide to stress management.

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