CHAPTER 6: LEARN HOW TO SUMMARISE YOUR STUDY MATERIAL Basic English Language Skills SUMMARISING YOUR WORK GIVES YOU AN OPPORTUNITY TO: •  Organise your study material into astructure that makes sense to you. •  Arrange your study material into a format that suits your learning style. •  Create memory aids for yourself. •  Identify key ideas and concepts. •  Focus on what’s important. •  Prepare for exams more easily. To be successful in your studies, you need to learn how to create  meaningful summaries of your course material. This is especially  important if you are a distance learning student (www.oxbridgeacademy. co.za/distance-learning/), as you won’t have a teacher or lecturer to  point out key concepts, or to give you tips about the types of questions  you can expect in the exams. Developed for Oxbridge Academy