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How to Become a Straight-A Student: The Unconventional Strategies Real College Students Use to Score High While Studying Less
By Cal Newport
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Looking to jumpstart your GPA?
Most college students believe that straight A’s can be achieved only through cramming and painful all-nighters at the library. But Cal Newport knows that real straight-A students don’t study harder—they study smarter. A breakthrough approach to acing academic assignments, from quizzes and exams to essays and papers, How to Become a Straight-A Student reveals for the first time the proven study secrets of real straight-A students across the country and weaves them into a simple, practical system that anyone can master.
You will learn how to:
• Streamline and maximize your study time
• Conquer procrastination
• Absorb the material quickly and effectively
• Know which reading assignments are critical—and which are not
• Target the paper topics that wow professors
• Provide A+ answers on exams
• Write stellar prose without the agony
A strategic blueprint for success that promises more free time, more fun, and top-tier results, How to Become a Straight-A Student is the only study guide written by students for students—with the insider knowledge and real-world methods to help you master the college system and rise to the top of the class.
Most college students believe that straight A’s can be achieved only through cramming and painful all-nighters at the library. But Cal Newport knows that real straight-A students don’t study harder—they study smarter. A breakthrough approach to acing academic assignments, from quizzes and exams to essays and papers, How to Become a Straight-A Student reveals for the first time the proven study secrets of real straight-A students across the country and weaves them into a simple, practical system that anyone can master.
You will learn how to:
• Streamline and maximize your study time
• Conquer procrastination
• Absorb the material quickly and effectively
• Know which reading assignments are critical—and which are not
• Target the paper topics that wow professors
• Provide A+ answers on exams
• Write stellar prose without the agony
A strategic blueprint for success that promises more free time, more fun, and top-tier results, How to Become a Straight-A Student is the only study guide written by students for students—with the insider knowledge and real-world methods to help you master the college system and rise to the top of the class.
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Reviews for How to Become a Straight-A Student
Rating: 3.956043986813187 out of 5 stars
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I got a lot out of this book, especially the first part on time management which is invaluable. I am so much more productive now that I can identify "pseudowork" and avoid it. Life. Changing.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I read the book quickly today as am finishing my master's to check if I learned what I should have learned during my studies and it seems fairly consistent.
Some of those lessons I learned the hard way, which gives the book its well deserved 4 stars ( 1 for getting straight to the point). But the book is not something break-through and on itself will not make you a straight-A student.
Get it if you're an undergrad and skim it fast. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I got a lot out of this book, especially the first part on time management which is invaluable. I am so much more productive now that I can identify "pseudowork" and avoid it. Life. Changing.