Study skills

Next to preparing yourself for the pre-M programme EST via a set of articles on educational design, educational effectiveness, and HRD, you may feel uncertain about or feel the need to improve your study skills. In that case, please check these resources:

http://www.learningscientists.org/search?q=effective+study+strategies

https://www.educationcorner.com/habits-of-successful-students.html

Mathematics/Statistics

Indication for Dutch students: your knowledge of mathematics should be at the level of VWO Wiskunde A (or HAVO Wiskunde B).

For all prospective students: In case you doubt about your competences in mathematics, you may contact the Boswell Institute (http://www.boswell-beta.nl/wiskunde) (Note: information in Dutch),

or visit the website of Khan Academy (https://www.khanacademy.org/). They offer online math and stats courses (free of charge). Via this website you get e.g. acquainted with concepts like ‘mean’, ‘median’ ‘variance’ and ‘standard deviation’ (the last two concepts will be explained again during the pre-M, but it will help to have heard about these before). You particularly may go to: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability. The first five entries would be good groundwork (getting used to listening to topics like this).

English

You can test your English proficiency via Dialang-assessment, a free online test: https://dialangweb.lancaster.ac.uk/

In general to perform well on university, your level should be B2 or C1. In case the outcome of the test shows you should improve your English, you could check: https://perfectlyspoken.com/

Good luck!