Study Skills Tutoring

Study Skills Tutoring is individualized support to develop key skills to be successful in college. Study Skills Tutors facilitate a process that helps you build capacity for success by focusing on the building blocks essential to academic achievement.

Individual Sessions

You can meet with a Study Skills Tutor for a 50-minute session to learn new skills like:

Body Doubling*

Navigating Course Expectations

Communication with Faculty and Staff

Calculating GPA

Reading and Note Taking

Studying and Test Taking

Time Management

Other Academic Success Tools

Study Skills Tutors are trained to help walk you through different strategies and how you can customize them to fit your individualized preferences. Just like with a personal trainer with strategies for fitness, the strategy does not produce the results, but following the strategy will!

Drop-In Information

Drop-in is a on-demand help with any of the above skills. With drop-in, there is no need to schedule in advance, and sessions are hosted in different locations across campus. You’re welcome to come in with a lot of questions or only one. An average drop-in session is around 45-minutes, but you’re welcome to leave early or stay longer—it’s really about what you need.

Real-time Drop-In schedule

Please Note: The real-time schedule is best viewed by changing view from "Month" to "Week" or "Day".

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Hale Library

Monday: 12:30 PM to 4:30 PM

Wednesday: 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM

Thursday: 10:30 AM to 2:30 PM and 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM

How to Schedule an Appointment

*What is Body Doubling?

Body doubling: What is it? How does it work?

“Body doubling” is language from occupational therapy and is used as a technique to help individuals who find it difficult to sustain focus on a task. The idea is that having someone else in the same physical space can help reduce distractions, increase motivation, and improve productivity.

In Body Doubling Hours, you can come work in a productive environment led by a Study Skills Tutor who can check-in on your progress and will ensure the space stays productive

Meet the Study Skills Tutors

Kailee Irvin Study Skills Tutor

Kailee Irvin

I am a sophomore from Vernon Hills, Illinois majoring in Animal Sciences and Industry (Pre-Veterinary option). I love study skills tutoring because of the conversations I am able to have with students. My appointments are a conversation about what is going well and what needs to be improved to help the student be successful in not just one class but college in general. My favorite tool is Week at a Glance because it allows you to schedule out your entire week down to 30 minute intervals. This helps me and students to stay on track and see how much time they have available to them during their week. It is also a tool I implement in my weekly routine.

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Billy Jacob

I am a Junior from Overland Park, Kansas majoring in Anthropology with a Museum Studies Certificate. I love study skills tutoring because it allows me to use my first-hand experience to help students further their success and academic careers. My favorite tool in the library is Bloom's Taxonomy, just because of how in-depth it goes into ways for furthering a student's understanding of a topic, as well as providing several effective ways of studying.

Study Skills Tutor Katrina Turner Photo Katrina Turner

I am a senior from Derby, Kansas majoring in Animal Science and minoring in Global Food Systems Leadership, Leadership Studies, and Meat Science. I love study skills tutoring because I enjoy connecting with students to help them reach their full academic potential. My favorite success tool is the Mind Mapping for note taking because it helps connects the big central ideas of the course too all the important details.

Kenna Blackburn

I am a sophomore from Papillion, Nebraska majoring in Human Health Biology (Pre-Medical option) with a minors in Psychology and Neuroscience and Global Health, Medicine, and Society certificate. I love study skills tutoring because it challenges me to think outside of the box and provide personalized help to students that need it. The Pomodoro Study Strategy is my favorite success tool because it is effective, and something I have personally integrated into my own study habits

Study Skills Tutor Joise Anderson Photo Josie Anderson

I am a senior from Crete, Nebraska majoring in Music Education. I love study skills tutoring because I love helping people and sharing my tools with others to help them be more successful. My favorite success tool is Mind-Mapping. I think it is a fantastic tool for studying, understanding big concepts, planning out an essay, and lots of other things. It is very applicable and not a tool I knew about before I became a tutor!

Study Skills Tutor Katie Krumins Katie Krumins

I am a sophomore from Topeka, Kansas majoring in Biology and minoring in Business and Psychology. I love study skills tutoring because I want to make a positive impact within the K-State community. My most used success tool is Bloom's Taxonomy because it provides several study methods and requires me to be honest with myself concerning my studying.

Study Skills Tutoring Ben Wiedenmann Ben Wiedenmann

I am senior from Louisburg, Kansas majoring Medical Biochemistry (Pre-Medical option). I love study skills tutoring because it allows me to help my peers become better students and succeed in their classes. My favorite tool is Bloom’s Taxonomy because it gives students a framework to go deeper into their learning and better understand their level of comprehension.

Photo coming soon Mandy Bramhall

I am Junior from Section, Alabama majoring in Animal Science and Industry with a minor in Business. I love study skills tutoring because it allows me to help students succeed in their learning. My most used success tool is probably the Leitner System. It’s my favorite because it combines two levels of studying where students must actively find the information to put on the flashcards and then sort through the information to decide what they do and don’t know.

Tutoring Services start the second week of courses, ends the last Friday of courses, and is closed during all university holidays and breaks.

If you have any questions, please reach out to us by visiting us in 258 Hale Library, emailing us at tutors@ksu.edu, or calling us at 785-532-5703.