The majority of students' learning skills are at the medium level. Learning skills is one of the many skills that needto be trained and mastered by students in order to be able to have satisfactory academic results. One factor that influences learning skills is learning attitude and behavior. This study aims to examine the first year Counseling students’ learning skills condition in State University of Padang. Learning skills explored in this study are skills in reading, writing, memorizing, test taking and using technology. The population of the study is all first-year students majoring in Counseling. The sampling technique is a random sampling. The study sample is 44 students. Data were analyzed using a descriptive analysis. The results show that the majority of students' learning skills is below high category, which is 88,63%. Most of the students' learning skills need to be improved in listening, reading and test-taking skills and they have some weaknesses in learning skills in using technology, memorizing and writing.