Benefits of attending PASS | The University of Sunderland

What are the benefits of attending a PASS session?

Peer Assisted Study Sessions offer students a great opportunity to build on the knowledge they gain in their lectures and seminars in a more relaxed and informal setting, amongst friends and peers. The sessions are available to all first year students across select degree courses and are scheduled around your timetable to ensure you can attend the sessions.

Below are just some of the benefits from attending PASS sessions at the University of Sunderland:

Understanding

Attainment

Working Relationships

There is a clear benefit to a student's understanding of the course content from attending PASS sessions.

Attending PASS sessions, either regularly or occasionally, offers an attendee another chance to engage in the course content, discuss and elaborate on ideas, and ask relevant questions.

Despite PASS sessions being delivered in first year, the benefits of the sessions are shown to follow attendees throughout their degree.

Students who regularly attend and engage in PASS in their first year are on average likely to attain one grade point higher at the end of their course.

Attending PASS sessions gives you opportunity to develop a range of new working relationships.

You will be expected to work closely with your peers to tackle challenging questions as well as developing a good working relationship with your 2nd year PASS Leaders.

Networking opportunities with students on your course.


Teamwork and Team Building		Effective Study Strategies		Sense of Belonging
Teamwork is a vital part of the PASS sessions, as you need to work through a range of questions and tasks with only guidance from your PASS Leader Building a team ethos is a highly sought-after skill for employers, and something which PASS places a great emphasis on.		PASS sessions will help you to learn and develop new strategies for learning and revising. Find out what works for you without the stresses and pressures of a teacher-led session, in a friendly and relaxed environment amongst friends and peers.		By attending PASS and building those relationships, this gives you a sense of belonging to a group of peers, your course and your wider university. Students with a sense of belonging are shown to have much greater motivation and be more successful than those who don't feel they belong.

Teamwork and Team Building

Effective Study Strategies

Sense of Belonging

Teamwork is a vital part of the PASS sessions, as you need to work through a range of questions and tasks with only guidance from your PASS Leader

Building a team ethos is a highly sought-after skill for employers, and something which PASS places a great emphasis on.

PASS sessions will help you to learn and develop new strategies for learning and revising.

Find out what works for you without the stresses and pressures of a teacher-led session, in a friendly and relaxed environment amongst friends and peers.

By attending PASS and building those relationships, this gives you a sense of belonging to a group of peers, your course and your wider university.

Students with a sense of belonging are shown to have much greater motivation and be more successful than those who don't feel they belong.

Interested in becoming a PASS Leader?

If you are interested in becoming a PASS Leader for the next academic year then why not have a read through some of the benefits of becoming a PASS Leader, as well as a testimonial from one of our first PASS Leaders.

Note that all expressions of interest are kept on file for one academic year.

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