The guide to success in college is designed to help college-bound students and college freshmen develop effective study habits, develop positive attitudes toward learning, and improve specific study skills. It is divided into five units. The first emphasizes positive study habits and attitudes, looking at how to avoid poor performance, outlining principles of time management and memorization techniques, and presenting some basic information about the college environment and the people in it. The remaining four units stress improvement of these specific study skills: (1) classroom listening, including notetaking, distinguishing between main ideas and supporting details, and differentiating facts, inferences, and judgments; (2) reading a college textbook, including understanding the organization of information, interpreting signal words and the author's tone, and increasing reading speed; (3) test-taking, by predicting test questions, studying old tests for patterns and clues, using contextual clues, and understanding essay tests; and (4) word attack, using contextual clues and analyzing word parts. The fifth edition of the instructor's manual (ISBN-89917-492-2) is included. (MSE)