tips for academic success

It's exam time again!

Visit Student Operations for important information about your exams.

Good luck.

Top Tips!

• Manage your time effectively.
• Don't over commit yourself to work and extra-curricular activities. Swinburne will not consider employment as an excuse for poor academic performance.
• Ask questions. If you don't understand or are unsure ask your teachers/lecturers/tutors to clarify. Talk to your lecturers and teachers if you are experiencing difficulty.
• Keep copies of all Swinburne correspondence including email. Use your Swinburne email.
• Emails sent by other ISP's may be considered spam by the Swinburne server. You must be able to be contacted by post and email at all times including non semester periods.
• If you are experiencing difficulties, it is best you identify and address these early in the semester or term. It is usualty better to withdraw from a subject or unit than to receive a fail or not yet competent grade.
• Attend study group sessions.
• Get involved in creating campus life. Remember to balance your studies with the other aspects of your life. Checkout the SSAA Clubs and Activities and get active. Visit swinburne.edu.au/ssaa/clubshomepage
• Make yourself aware of the many services available to you provided by Swinburne. For example there are free on-campus services specifically providing financial and housing advice; to help you develop your academic and learning skills; confidential counselling and a variety of health services; advice and assistance for students with disabilities and long term medicaI conditions as well as scholarship opportunities.
• Serious about getting work done? Find a good location. Use the Libraries, study rooms, or empty classrooms.
• Make sure you are studying in a field appropriate to your interests and skills. Students who succeed academically are most often those who identify their strengths and pursue their passions; rather than those who give in to external pressures or have no clear career path.
• Swinburne Student Amenities Association (SSAA) has been established to provide arrange of services to students at Swinburne University of Technology. Feel free to contact us at anytime.