The exam season is fast approaching once more and the University Library is managing its services, resources and spaces to help you to prepare for success.
Services
To get off to a good start with revising, pay a visit to the Academic Skills Hub (See details below) based on Level 2 of the Hartley Library. It’s open Monday-Friday: 10:00-12:00, 14:00-16:00.
At all the other Library sites: Winchester School of Art, the Health Services Library, the National Oceanography Library and the Library & Learning Commons at the Avenue Campus, you will find staff who can answer questions and guide you to books and resources which will help with revision planning and exam techniques.
You can find an IT Help Desk in the Hartley Library offering a face-to-face service for IT questions and help with using your devices. The Help Desk is on Level 2, at the back of the Entrance Hall on the right-hand side.
Resources
In the Hartley Library, there will be additional, temporary study desks for you to use during the exam period. You can book a desk or a group study room if you are revising with peers.
Space
You will find quiet and comfortable study spaces in all of our Libraries. Opening times for the University Libraries are here. The Hartley Library will be open 24 hours right through until Friday 3 June 2016.
In the Hartley Library, the workstation Rooms 4075 and 4077 (Level 4, south end), Room 1009 and Room 3009 will open Monday-Friday, 07:30-17:00 and Saturday 09:00-16:00 as additional, freely available, workstation rooms for study.
Visit the library blog, which is updated regularly with useful information. For further information, you can find contact details for the University libraries here.
What exactly can the Academic Skills Hub offer?
See the resources, tips and advice available in the Exam techniques section of our Academic Skills webpages http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/exam
Staff in the Academic Skills Hub in Hartley Library will be happy to direct you to resources to help you prepare for your exams, including our quick guides on revision, exam skills and time management.
You can access past exam papers from our webpage and use them to practise your exam skills with timed tasks:-
- Practise analysing questions and setting out plans to answer them.
- Practise writing full answers in the time allowed.
- Check your answers against your notes and highlight any missed or inaccurate information.
- How could you improve your answer? Did it need more information? Did it have a logical structure?
- Devise your own ‘exam questions’. If there are no past papers available, you could try setting your own, perhaps with a group of fellow students.
Come and look through one of the pocket study skills books on the reference display in the Hub. Titles include:
- 14 Days to Exam Success by Lucinda Becker
- The Exam Skills Handbook by Stella Cottrell
- Time Management by Kate Williams; Michelle Reid
Alternatively, check on WebCat for a copy that you can borrow from the Academic Skills Collection on Level 3 of the Hartley Library or from one of the other site libraries.
Thinking about your dissertation?
Look out for our bite sized training sessions taking place in late May and early June:
- Dissertation: Getting Started!
Just turn-up, or reserve a space using our online calendar.