Workshops Available

Student Learning Centre’s Study Skills Workshop series aims to equip our students with the necessary skills to excel in their respective programme’s needs note-taking, critical thinking and critical reading.

Click on the workshop title below for more information.

Speed Learning and Visual Thinking

Learning Outcomes:

  1. Use visual tools to take notes
  2. Understand various effective ways to summarise content using visuals
  3. Use visuals to enhance learning

Who should attend?

  • Student of any SIM or University Partner programmes
  • Students who wish to enhance their learning skills

How to register?

  • Workshop runs every January, July and September
  • Students will be informed via email to your SIM MyMail email
  • Click on Registration link here (link will only be opened during run period)

Learning Tips and Strategies

Learning Outcomes:

  1. Know how to strategize and ace your studies
  2. Use metacognitive learning strategies to become a more efficient and effective learner

Who should attend?

  • Student of any SIM or University Partner programmes
  • Students who wish to enhance their learning skills

How to register?

  • Workshop runs every January, July and September
  • Students will be informed via email to your SIM MyMail email
  • Click on Registration link here (link will only be opened during run period)

Learning with Critical Thinking

Learning Outcomes:

  1. Gain knowledge of basic critical thinking skills
  2. Understand various types of arguments
  3. Apply critical thinking skills in course of study

Who should attend?

  • Student of any SIM or University Partner programmes
  • Students who wish to enhance their learning skills

How to register?

  • Workshop runs every January, July and September
  • Students will be informed via email to your SIM MyMail email
  • Click on Registration link here (link will only be opened during run period)

Critical Thinking: The Next Level

Learning Outcomes:

  1. Learn the principles of analysis to help in thinking more deeply.
  2. Learn what insightful thinking is and how to develop it.

Who should attend?

  • Student of any SIM or University Partner programmes
  • Students who wish to enhance their learning skills

How to register?

  • Workshop runs every January, July and September
  • Students will be informed via email to your SIM MyMail email
  • Click on Registration link here (link will only be opened during run period)

Critical Reading

Learning Outcomes:

  1. Understand and differentiate reading strategies
  2. Know the different techniques in scanning and skimming a text passage
  3. Apply reading strategies for assignment and exam preparation

Who should attend?

  • Student of any SIM or University Partner programmes
  • Students who wish to enhance their learning skills

How to register?

  • Workshop runs every January, July and September
  • Students will be informed via email to your SIM MyMail email
  • Click on Registration link here (link will only be opened during run period)

Organize 2 Memorize

Learning Outcomes:

  1. Explore tools to organize and memorise information
  2. Learn the use of apps to digitize memory techniques

Who should attend?

  • Student of any SIM or University Partner programmes
  • Students who wish to enhance their learning skills

How to register?

  • Workshop runs every January, July and September
  • Students will be informed via email to your SIM MyMail email
  • Click on Registration link here (link will only be opened during run period)

Need Immediate Help?

If you need immediate help and are unable to attend the workshops, you can consider dropping by our student learning centre for academic writing drop-in sessions. More information can be found here.