How to Get Better Grades and Have More Fun

by Al Janssen, Stephen B. Douglass, Steve Douglass

Book Overview

HELP! My College Kid Needs Some Serious Mentoring!- Discover Harvard-quality advice in just twelve chapters- Learn the simple, yet often elusive secrets that turn the average student into a real... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898400902
• ISBN13: 9780898400908
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Here's Life Publishers
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Must Have for All Serious Students

Do you want to keep your grades up or even improve them? Do you want more time for friends and fun? Then this book is a must read for you this school year. It guarantees a grade point increase or your money back. By simply reading a chapter a week, at most 12 pages, you will learn tricks and techniques to help you learn how to do school better. This book takes the 80/20 principle and applies it to academics. The authors of this book so believe in it, it has a written guarantee that if you apply it, your average will go up 1 grade point or your money back. The best thing is, not only does it work, it also is easy to apply. The 12 chapters were written to be read during the 12 weeks of a term so that you peek for exams. The techniques are designed to be useful for science or arts students. Are you wondering `What is the 80/20 principle?' It was a business term developed by Richard Koch and it seems to be pretty consistent - one of those great patterns in the chaos often observed in this universe. Take McDonalds as an example: 80% of McDonald's profit comes from fries and drinks, the other 20% of their profit comes from everything else on the menu. Or take real estate: a friend's father owns a real estate office. 80% of the sales consistently come from 20% of the realtors, the other 20% of sales comes from the rest. Wondering what all of this has to do with school? Simply a lot! This book will teach you how to do school better, and I can personally vouch for it. My first time in University at Queen's University I had a 58 average. I have read this book a few times since being here at The University of Waterloo and I have an over 80 cumulative average. I try to pick it up every 2 or 3 terms to reread as a refresher. I have given away over a dozen copies of this book and every person who has read it has thanked me for the book and the help it has been. Here's a personal example: a few years back, I took the `Introduction to Church History' course RS 230 (Religious Studies) with Arnold Snyder. The first week of the class I asked him his objective for the course. He told us this will be your final exam question, "You're sitting at your Christmas dinner and your uncle Buck says: `So I hear you took the history of Christianity course; tell me the story in your own words'." So instead of doing my usual and making tons of charts of names, dates, place and theories, I focused on the story - being able to tell the history clearly, concisely, and simply in my own words. I saved hours and hours of work and time spent memorizing just because I knew the objective for the course. The book will benefit you, and your academic career. It is well worth picking up. This book is definitely a great value at $15 to get it. You can order it from Check it out - it's guaranteed! You will not be sorry. (First Published in Imprint Frosh Edition 2006/2007 as `Learn how to do school better.' 2006-09-01"

guaranteed grade point incress

Are you concerned about your grades dropping in University and having enough time for fun, games and extracurricular activities? If so, then this book is a must read for you. This book takes the 80/20 principle and applies it to academics. The authors of this book so believe in it, it has a written guarantee that if you apply it, your average will go up 1 grade point or your money back. The best thing is, not only does it work, it is easy to apply. The longest chapter is 12 pages and with just 12 chapters it is a chapter a week for a term and you will peak for your exams. You might be asking yourself, "What is the 80/20 principle?" It was a business term developed by Richard Koch and it seems to be pretty consistent, one of those great patterns in the chaos of the universe. Take McDonalds as an example: 80% of McDonald's profit comes from fries and drinks, the other 20% of their profit comes from everything else on the menu. Or take real estate: a friend's father owns a real estate office; 80% of the sales consistently come from 20% of the realtors, the other 20% of sales comes from the rest. You're probably wondering, "What does this have to do with school?" A lot! This book will teach you how to do school better, and I can personally vouch for it. My first time in University I had a 58 average. I have read this book a few times since being here at The University of Waterloo and I have an over 80 cumulative average. I have g1ven away over a dozen copies of this book and every person who has read it has thanked me for the book and the help it has been. I'll give you a personal example. A few years back, I took the Introduction to Church History Course RS 230 with Arnold Snyder; the first week of the class I asked him his objective for the course. He told us this will be your final exam question, "You're sitting at your Christmas dinner and your uncle Buck says `So I hear you took the history of Christianity course, tell me the story in your own words'." So instead of doing my usual and making tons of charts of names, dates, place and theories, I focused on the story - being able to tell the history clearly, concisely, and simply in my own words. I saved hours and hours of work and time spent memorizing just because I knew the objective for the course.

Help me get through college

Entering College for me was like a deer entranced by the headlights, I had no idea of the freight train behind it...Wham! It hit me, and I didn't even have a clue... It never occured to me to consider how to get organized for the college, how to take notes, how to develope questions to ask, and how to pick out what was really important from the text. This book helped me get it together, otherwise I may have ended up as a drop out...... I made past college and onto a career & family. Looking back the book was great tool to help me reach my dreams.