10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less)

10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less)

Becoming a more effective learner and boosting your productivity will help you earn better grades - but it'll also cut down on your study time. This is a short, meaty book that will guide you through ten steps to achieving those goals: Pay better attention in class Take more effective notes Get more out of your textbooks Plan like a general Build a better study environment Fight entropy and stay organized Defeat Procrastination Study smarter Write better papers Make group projects suck less

Whether you're in college or high school, this book will probably help you. But not if you're a raccoon. I want to be very clear about that; if you're a raccoon, please buy a different book. This one will do absolutely nothing for you. How did you even learn to read, anyway?

  • Format: Paperback | 164 pages
  • Dimensions: 127 x 203 x 10mm | 181g
  • Publication date: 05 Jan 2015
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Revised
  • Edition Statement: Revised
  • ISBN10: 1517004446
  • ISBN13: 9781517004446
  • Bestsellers rank: 135,324

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