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What Smart Students Know: Maximum Grades. Optimum Learning. Minimum Time.
by Adam Robinson
from Three Rivers Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Highly unrealistic!
  Although the author have good intentions, the author had clearly been out of college for a long time before writing this book. He suggests that students approach every reading assignments as a twelve-step process. He asks you to write down what you already know about the subject, what you expect to learn, read the assignment 3 separate times, write and rewrite your notes, create charts and graphics, pictures, and devise mnemonics to memorize concepts.
  This might help a highly-ambitious high school... more info

• Good, not excellent
  Adam Robinson presents some interesting advice. However, the book keeps repeating itself and it seems to assume that we have infinite time to study. It is better suit to high school than college.

• Clever Marketing Ruse? No Way! Robinson is a Genius
  Just over a year ago, I was walking through Borders when I noticed this book and laughed to myself at its prominently displayed and clichéd promise of MAXIMUM GRADES.
  "Oh great, I've seen this before," I thought. "Only suckers and suckers' parents buy these books, anyway." I walked away.
  After all, who doesn't want maximum grades? Or, for that matter, a shorter waistband, to become a magnet for beautiful women, or to have an instant multi-million dollar bank account?
  This was some kind... more info

• Time Saver and Eye Opener
  I got this book along with The Rocket Review, The Rocket Review Revolution: The Ultimate Guide to the New SAT (Third Edition) (Rocketreview Revolution: The Ultimate Guide to the New SAT) which I wrote a review on as well, because it really is my favorite SAT book. Either way, I never made time to read "What Smart Students Know" until I was bored on the train coming home. I usually never buy into these books that promises improvements in grades or even SAT's instantly, but this is actually a book that I... more info

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