A good education can be provided through the committment and action of students, teachers and administrators. Students’ effective learning can be encouraged and enhanced through the development of the students’ organization skills. Evidence shows that many high school students fail to do well academically because of a lack of their study skills. This work is conducted to report on an exploratory study of six schools in Albania where their key characteristics are found to be important to these schools’ success. The data are obtained from a close-ended survey in a Likert type scale with adequate validity and reliability (Cronbach’s alpha=.88). The sample consisted of N=255, 11th and 12th grade students (N=116 male, 45.5% and N=138 female, 54.1%) from eight high schools in Albania. Results showed that, female students were significantly different from male students on: I take notes as I read textbook assignments (p DOI: 10.5901/jesr.2013.v3n7p17