You Are Smarter Than You Think!: Using Your Brain the Way it Was Designed: The Missing Piece to Success

by Renee Mollan-Masters

Book Overview

You are probably asking yourself, "Why do I need this book?" Well, maybe you don't. Consider the following questions and find out. 1. Do you have the feeling that you are a lot smarter than your... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0960862242
• ISBN13: 9780960862245
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Reality Productions
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.8" x 0.5" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Wow!!!!!

I recommended this book to a nursing student who was having difficulty on exams. Her grade on the first exam was a D. She bought the book, seriously worked through it, and then scored 97% on the next test. I could not believe it made such a difference in her ability to comprehend and test. In ten years, I've never had a student make 97% on a test, much less one who was having problems! Nursing students many times have such a hard time figuring out how to study and correctly answer the application/analysis level questions they are required to master in nursing school. To have a tool that can help them achieve this goal is beyond wonderful. I am estatic at the results and so is my student. She has since passed the book to classmates that are also having problems and they are improving. This book is at the top of my recommendation list for nursing students.

This book is EXCELLENT

My nursing school requires you to complete this book. When I first picked this book up I thought oh gees, do I have to do this stupid "how to study" book. I have always been an A student and I really thought I had a grasp on my learning style and the best way for me to study. I have been working through this book and been very very pleased with all the info I gleaned from it. I found her to be right on about my best learning style and already have decided I will completely incorporate her suggestions. I was shocked to find I am an auditory learner and not a visual learner. I really thought I was a visual learner and I scored very poorly on that. (And it was clear and very apparent that I was NOT a visual learner that I learned the material better by auditory). This book is much much more than determining whether you are a visual or auditory learner though. There are lots of tips for studying and ones I just would have never thought of. I can't say enough about this book. I am actually anxiously working through it now, where as when I brought the book home I didn't even want to do it. I don't want to proceed with any further studying till I finish it.

I knew I was smarter than my grades reflected.

I knew something was wrong when I began putting extra time into studying and my test grades didn't change.Though my 4 children are in public school now,I had been a home-schooling mother and felt I knew the in's and out's of teaching,learning and studying. I had the desire to do well on tests and yet the best I could do was a high B grade.Over winter quarter I asked other students who did well on tests what they did to study and most everyone was either a natural A student and didn't have to study and others employed simple reviewing of class notes and 3X5 card memorization of key concepts (short-term memory).Sometimes when I asked students about their study habits I would have the opportunity to tell them why I was asking and what I had found out from others.Adult and younger students alike wanted me to get back to them if I found any ideas they could use in studying that would work, so I knew I wasn't alone.I have looked at and bought many books with promising titles. All of them filled with dull put your nose to the grindstone type of study habit suggestions. If you are already doing that now what?This book was the end of my search. My test grades have improved significantly, I am spending less time studying and because I know I have done all I need to do to prepare for a test there is no room for test anxiety.I no longer waste time studying in ways that don't work for me.So I have more time to relax without guilt.The most shocking thing I discovered was, I had been using my weakest form of learning to study by, and my strenghts were virtually untapped.This book can change your college experience and grades.If your just looking for tips and tricks you can get those ideas in any book.This book will make a significant difference unlike the rest.

You Are Smarter Than You Think

You Are Smarter Than You Think is an excellent book that everyone should read. This book helps you maximize your potential learning behavior. Various questions and exercises assist you in determining what your learning behaviors' strengths and weeknesses are. You may discover that you retain information better if you play the piano while you listen to your lectures and notes on tape. Mollan-Masters helps you discover your learning channels and then she provides you with numerous strategies that have been proven to work for those channels. In the back of the book she provides you with a wonderful, concise Application Chart which summarizes the strategies to be used for listening to lectures, reading a textbook, studying for a test, and taking tests that accompany your particular learning style. As a college student, this book has helped me tremendously this year. I have cut down on the time I spend studying because I am now studying using my learning channels appropriately, thus maximizing my learning behavior. I absolutely love this book. I even bought a copy for my little brother who has been experiencing learning difficulties in junior high school; and I bought a copy for my sister-in-law who teaches learning disabled junior high students. Both, my brother and sister-in-law, agree that this is an extremely helpful tool in mastering your learning difficulties.

I was smarter than I thought!

When I first saw this book, I thought to myself, "I'm an adult learner. Adult learners don't learn as quickly or as well as children."I was wrong. This book showed me that I can learn by using the method most suited for me. By a series of questions and readings, a person can find out what learning type he or she is and what kind of system will work best. The system teaches how information is recepted in the best way for each individual, how to organize it, and how it can be retained. It even helps with test anxiety. I recommend this book to all adult learners who, like me, think they are too old to go back to school. Thanks, Ms. Masters.