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Summary:
Starting from the premise that successful students are not necessarily any more brilliant than their less successful peers, but have simply mastered the art of efficient learning, Adam Robinson introduces high school and college students to an innovative approach that can help them achieve top grades while discovering the joy of true learning. Line drawings.
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A good guide to academics, but social pressures are the real challenge
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This is a good book to guide you through the perils of academics and basic college issues. However, the sad fact of most American universities is that exams are easy and you will do great on them if you go to class, do the readings, and study. The greater challenge is dealing with social pressures and lifestyle decisions that can prevent you from making it to class and hinder your ability to study. It is when personal lives impede on academic lives that students begin to struggle. To prepare for college, students need to prepare for the overwhelming social madness they are going to be encountering on campus. I thus recommend you buy a book that deals with real college life like: COLLEGE LIFE EXTREME: Lies, Sex, Drugs and Violenceor Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororitiesor Goat: A Memoir.
Worth the read - great insights
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Very helpful book in making students realize it is up to them. I don't necessarily agree with his method of taking and retaking notes and listing and regrouping, since everyone has different styles, but I do agree that you need to take notes on the reading and lecturing and combine them to a single page of meaningful material for the test. It is not the most interesting read, I could only get through a chapter a day, but the insights and methods and advice make it a 5 anyway.
great book... kind of outdated
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A little outdated (references to typewriters and how computers are becoming affordable for families) but lots of great study skills advice. Very easy to read and entertaining.
Great book
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Even though I have read the book a few months before I went into College and thought it was great, I do not use the technique it exposes.
I think this book is a must read for anyone that wants to take high education (or even High School) studies seriously.
Highly unrealistic!
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Although the author have good intentions, the author had clearly been out of college for a long time before writing this book. He suggests that students approach every reading assignments as a twelve-step process. He asks you to write down what you already know about the subject, what you expect to learn, read the assignment 3 separate times, write and rewrite your notes, create charts and graphics, pictures, and devise mnemonics to memorize concepts.
This might help a highly-ambitious high school student with nothing productive to do with his time, but it is impossible to apply in college. The author gives a 1 page sample and spends 200 pages explaining how to take notes on this single page. Doing every steps he advocates takes hours for a single page; how can you expect to do all this if you have to read thousands of pages, which is what colleges usually require. This book does not delivers on it's title.
For a good study-guide written by an actual college student who describes methods that are successfully used by real students and not a simple hypothetical method, get Cal Newports How to Become a Straight-A Student: The Unconventional Strategies Real College Students Use to Score High While Studying Less.
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