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| What Smart Students Know: Maximum Grades. Optimum Learning. Minimum Time.
Paperback
Edition: 1
Author: Adam Robinson
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Release Date: 1993-07-27
ISBN-10: 0517880857
ISBN-13: 9780517880852
List Price: $17.00
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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.
Worth the read - great insights
| Customer Rating: | | 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 kind of outdated
| Customer Rating: | | A little outdated (references to typewriters and how computers are becoming affordable for families) but lots of great study skills advice.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
| Customer Rating: | 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!
| Customer Rating:  | 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. |
Good, not excellent
| Customer Rating: | | Adam Robinson presents some interesting advice. However, the book keeps repeating itself and it seems to assume that we have infinite time to study. It is better suit to high school than college. |
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