You Can Succeed: The Ultimate Study Guide for Students

by Eric Jensen

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812020847
• ISBN13: 9780812020847
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.2" x 7.0"
• Age Range: 15 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 10 to 12

Customer Reviews

The three books which have influenced my understanding of effective studying during the early years!

1) Student Success Secrets (1979), by Eric Jensen; 2) You Can Succeed: The Ultimate Study Guide for Students (1979), by Eric Jensen; 3) B's & A's in 30 Days: Strategies for Better Grades in College (1994), by Eric Jensen; Over the last two decades & within the realm of study strategies, I have amassed a vast repertoire of books & resources on the subject. They cover a very comprehensive & broad academic range from young children through teen/college students all the way to university/matured students. This is attributed to my deep personal interest in understanding the `concept of studying' as well as my relentless search for the `study smart process'. Many of the ideas & techniques have been adapted & put to work in my own public workshops as well as in collaborative school projects. Amidst the many books I have owned & read about the study process, only a few of them have been my personal favourites. They include: Walter Pauk's 'How to Study in College' (1974), Adam Robinson's `What Smart Students Know: Maximum Grades. Optimum Learning, Minimum Time' (1993) & William Armstrong's `Study Is Hard Work: The Most Accessible and Lucid Text Available on Acquiring & Keeping Study Skills Through a Lifetime' (1995). However, there are three books which have influenced my understanding during the very early years. They are listed above. The decisive factor in acquiring all the three early books, by Eric Jensen, more or less lies in his impressive track record in education. As a teacher in the middle schools, he co-founded the internationally-acclaimed SuperCamp, a residential summer camp for teens, pre-teens and college-age students, with Bobbi dePorter in the early eighties. [In the late seventies, Bobbi studied with Dr Georgi Lozanov, father of accelerated learning, & applied the innovative methods to her highly-successful, but now-defunct, Burklyn Business School. Seeing an urgent need to teach school children how to learn, she later applied the techniques in SuperCamp, a youth program. In the years since, SuperCamp has helped over 45,000 students re-learn how they learn & reshape how they live their lives.] Eric left a few years later to create Turning Point for Teachers, a training outfit applying the innovative accelerated learning techniques to teaching staff development, which eventually become Jensen Learning, a consultancy outfit. The specialty of Jensen Learning is the integration of brain research into practical, user-friendly training applications & it has trained more educators/teachers in brain- based learning than anyone else in the world with over 50,000 graduates. He also subsequently wrote more than two dozen books about how to apply brain science to learning & education, including `Super-Teaching' & `Teaching with the Brain in Mind'. All Eric's early three book as mentioned above essentially focus on the development of effective study strategies. `Student Success Secrets' is primarily targeted

Read and succeed

I can't agree more with the first reviewer. This book represents a milestone in my life. It helped me go for being a poor student to a successful one. (Today I have my own engineering practice.) If the book's suggestions are taken seriously, no one who reads it can claim they haven't done their best. While the study skills advocated are very practical, perhaps the heart of the book is its upbeat outlook. Another outstanding book is "Effective Study" by Francis Robinson, a professor who performed amazing research on study methods and whose work (the SQ3R method) appears in various forms or acronyms in many study books today. Like "You Can Succeed", Robinson not only gives insightful study tips, but understands that students will often fail or succeed in proportion to their ability to effectively manage their personal issues and environment. Other sources: http://www.supermemo.com/articles/power.htm and the work of Dr. Piotr Wozniak, Harry Lorayne on memory, Mortimer Adler in "How to Read a Book", and Barry Farber in "Learn Any Language". You won't regret it.

Timeless masterpiece

I'm an avid reader of study skills books. This book was my very first, and the only one that I keep coming back at. Highly pleasurable to read. Each line charges my spirits. Each chapter brings me a step forward. No other book incorporates senseful motivation and effective study methods like this book. I had improved vastly. Includes 11 reasons for failure, 12 steps to effective study habits, good notetaking skills and priceless quotes and cartoons to sustain reader's interest in reading and learning. If anyone wants to get a study skills book, this is almost all that s/he needs. It guides me not only in my academic life but it provides the principles of my life. It is my bible.