ABSTRACT
The article mainly explores the dissimilarities of the use of strategies in English learning between the brilliant and inferior students in a university in Chongqing by means of rational analysis.It was found that the width and frequency of the study strategies used by the brilliant students were obviously more often than those by the inferior ones.And there was a lot of difference in the use of study strategies between the two.It showed that the former often adopted the approaches of imagining when reading,actively participating in the classroom activities,and process monitoring,etc.which are generally regarded as effective strategies and will contribute a great deal to successful English study,while the latter tended to use the way of looking for the surface meaning and word for word translation because they are always plagued by their mother tongue.