Dec 23

Resources for Studying

If you’re one of the many people that believe in the tried-and-true adage that information is power, then you may want to arm yourself with some of the following books that provide excellent content on improving your study habits. We recommend that you review a couple of them to develop your own list of what works best for you since everyone has different styles (and needs) when it comes to improving study habits.Pocket Guide to Study Tips ( George Ehrenhaft, Willilam H. Armstrong) is a definitive guide to organizing and scheduling study time, taking notes, and diagnosing subject weakness and areas needing more intensive study. For many years this guide has helped college students and business professionals in an easy-to-locate reference format.How to Become a Straight-A Student: The Unconventional Strategies Real College Students Use to Score High While Studying Less (Cal Newport) is considered a “breakthrough approach” to acing academic assignments, from quizzes and exams to essays and papers by revealing the proven study secrets of real straight-A students across the country and weaving them into a simple, practical system that anyone can master.Last Minute Study Tips (Ron Fry) offers easy-to-digest explanations of how to study smart and then guides readers as they get closer to their deadline–from months to weeks to hours to even minutes before–offering advice, face-saving tips and tricks for salvaging any situation. The author recognizes that cramming is never ideal, but if you’re up against that type of scenario, this book helps you do it most effectively.

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