What Smart Students Know: Maximum Grades. Optimum Learning. Minimum Time.

By Adam Robinson

Book Overview

Successful students are not necessarily smarter than their less successful peers, they 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517880857
• ISBN13: 9780517880852
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.6" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

I use this in class

I have been teaching college for 15 years and have always struggled to understand why students do so poorly on assignments. This book opened my eyes - the techniques mirror what I did in school (I thought everyone studied like I did...wrong!). I now use this book in a study skills class I teach. About 95% of my students LOVE this book (and I'm not exaggerating). I think almost all of them have learned something new. In...

Why couldn't I have found this book in first grade?

Do you have any idea how much easier my life would have been? An incredible book, it points out the irony that of all the things we are taught and study in school the one thing we don't study is perhaps the most important of all: HOW TO STUDY! I am an intelligent person, but I have never done well in school. An occasional A, a more common B, and often Cs or less. What a surprise to read this book and find that I actually...

Start studying right!

I am going to be a first year in medical school in the fall and bought several books to help me get maximum benefit with minimum time spent studying. Because medical school consists of so much material in a short period of time, I needed to learn study techniques that were unlike my old ones-read, take notes, reread until the test. I have read this book and started implimenting the techniques. They really work. I agree...