Thursday Sep 09

Making the Grade

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Making the Grade: Tips & Techniques for Better Grades in Less Time will help students of all ages succeed in school. I have earned four college degrees in my lifetime using the study and note taking techniques in this book. These techniques worked for me and they will work for you! The study techniques are designed to help you remember important facts and concepts you need to know in order to do well on quizzes and tests. These techniques increase the amount of information you can remember and lay the foundation for better grades—and it works for most school subjects!

As part of recommended study techniques, Part Two of this book also discusses taking notes in class. Part Two introduces techniques for note taking using shorthand methods that teach you to quickly summarize important facts and concepts. If you cannot get the important facts and concepts of the lecture down on paper, then you are not going to do well when tested on those facts and concepts. No teacher or professor ever explained how I could make my life easier by using a system of study techniques to help me remember course material. Nobody taught me how to take class notes efficiently either. It was clear that in order to do well, I needed to develop my own system. I began working on that system in high school and continued developing and refining it in college. Allison has refined it even further and the result is an easily understandable note taking method set out in Part Two of this book.

My system works. The techniques described are for students who want to do well in school without the constant insecurity of not being able to remember important facts and concepts. The tips and techniques in this book can and will bring results for any student, from grade school through graduate studies, regardless of age. These techniques will reduce study time, freeing up time for other activities. Your success will depend upon the extent to which you put these techniques into practice. The study techniques are not a substitute for your ability to understand the subject matter and course concepts; they are simply intended to help you remember the facts and concepts necessary to do well on quizzes and tests. If you want to spend less time studying and more time participating in after school activities, including playing sports, using the techniques in this book are a must! Achieve better grades in 30 days!

The concepts and techniques described in this book are those that worked particularly well for me. The “memory joggers” are things that are easy for me to remember. You do not have to follow my methods exactly; it is the concept behind these methods that is important. You should be prepared to tailor these techniques to your interests and learning style.