About Students Helping Students
At Deakin, peer mentoring programs are collectively referred to as Students Helping Students (SHS).
SHS programs help you become more successful and engaged in academic, social, and practical ways.
Mentors as well as mentees enjoy a sense of belonging and community because of the mentoring experience. Learning happens through dialogue and exchange in academic, practical, and social ways. Both formal and incidental learning happens everywhere at Deakin, across campuses and online.
A peer mentor may mean the difference between you passing and failing a subject, getting through a rough patch, or simply navigating something new and different that you’ve encountered at uni.
Our programs
New students
A faculty peer mentor can help you settle in and make a great start at university. For more information on faculty peer mentor programs, visit the following pages:
Understanding content
For help with a specific unit of study, you can join a PASS (Peer Assisted Study Sessions) group led by a student who has previously completed the unit with high marks.
Referencing
A writing mentor can help unpack assignment questions, researching, academic writing, referencing and time management.
Maths equations and concepts
A maths mentor can help you build the confidence to successfully complete maths assignments and can refer you to helpful resources that will strengthen your skills.
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My name’s Georgie. I’ve been going to PASS for SLE132 Biology and SLE155 Chemistry.
My favourite activity that we did at PASS was Biology Bingo. For a couple of weeks, we incorporated our studying into games, and that was really great. We also did a lot of worksheets, which I found really reinforced my understanding of what we were doing in lectures.
I found PASS quite different to a tutorial. In my experience, in tutorials I found us as the students didn’t have much input into the class, whereas at PASS, the person who took the class really just mediated it, and we did a lot of independent work together.
I think I’ve become a lot more independent this year at university. My marks were pretty good, and I would definitely account some of that to PASS.
I’d say you may as well give it a shot. There’s no harm in going to one PASS session, and I think the likelihood is that you’ll enjoy it and you’ll want to go back.
Yeah, see everybody at PASS!
Georgie's PASS experience
Hear what it's like to attend biology and chemistry PASS sessions.
All about Students Helping Students
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