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CETL — For Undergraduate Students

Study Groups

What are they?

Study groups offer a workshop-style opportunity to study with classmates, receiving advice and direction from a student leader who did well in the same course within the past few years. We aim for a maximum of twelve students per group; most groups are smaller.

Groups meet weekly, and last for an hour.

Why bother?

Because most people learn better when they study in groups. Regardless of how well they're doing already. If you're having difficulty, you can get help from others. If you're handling the material well, you can deepen your understanding by working with others.

And because an hour spent studying in company is better than an hour of procrastination and distractions.

Which courses? Where? When?

Scroll down to the bottom of this page for the most up-to-date schedule. At the start of term, entries are vague; details will be filled in as we finalize them into the first few weeks.

Each study group meeting is one (academic) hour long.

How do you join?

Fill in the Intake Application. As long as the group isn't oversubscribed, you should be added within a couple of days. As soon as you've submitted the application and a schedule has been finalized, you can start attending (as long as there's space).

• The CHM 132 group is already full. You can still apply to join the waiting list.

And if your course isn't listed?

We take requests. If you and a few of your classmates want a group that we don't have on the schedule, we'd be happy to talk with you about setting one up; just e-mail Dr. Alistair Kwan. (It's important to make these requests fairly early in the semester, since leaders get harder to find as the term progresses).

Interested in leading a group?

Have a look at the CETL jobs page. We look for study group leaders at the end of every term, and especially at the end of Spring.