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	How to Become a Straight-A Student: The Unconventional Strategies Real College Students Use to Score High ... Cal Newport Broadway, 2006 - 224 pages average customer review:based on 39 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Must-read, must-buy, must-swear by

Cal Newport has done it again with this smart, serious, streamlined little volume that cuts straight to straight As. All the other 5-star reviews are right on. This book is invaluable and different from anything else out there. All the other books on getting great grades are dated and not very appealing or useful. And all the other books about college success (except Cal's How To Win At College) are written by well-meaning adults who nevertheless dumb things down or miss the point. "Straight-A Student" is awesome! The strategies are carefully researched and developed, and they are sometimes things you wouldn't think of...or at least that are a lot simpler than you'd imagine. They are preapproved by straight-A students around the country and best of all are designed to give you lots of extra time for having a life.

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Newport Delivers the straight stuff

I've read many many books on this subject, and this is the best one I've found so far. Cal Newport does a fantastic job presenting his finds on how to get straight A's, without the BS that you'll get from 90% of the books out there.

The main source of information for this book was interviews with real, straight A students at schools like Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Brown, etc... Newport sent out surveys around the country to these students, and even interviewed many in depth in order to devise the strategies that these students are using.

The book is broken up into three sections: Study Basics + Time Management, Quizzes + Exams, and Essays + Papers. In each section, Newport carefully outlines the strategies real students use to gain an academic edge. Some of these include how to plan out your day in only five minutes, how to win the war on porcrastination, and how to come up with killer ideas for essay topics. At the end of each section, the author presents a "Case Study" on one or two student, where he goes through a typical day/week with a college student who implements these strategies. At the end, I found myself feeling empowered and motivated, like there was no academic challenge I couldn't overtake.

And here's the real good stuff: the author shows you how to do this WITHOUT having to study for 16 hours a day, only get 3 hours of sleep, and spend every spare waking moment with your nose in your notes. In fact, Newport deliberately discarded any interviews with students who followed strategies such as this.

I'd reccommend this book to any student at any level who wants to learn how to live up to their full potential. It's easier than you think.

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Sound Advice

Cal Newport is the only author who gets it -- that college isn't about being a grind or a party animal (or something into which you get in and pay for, and then authors forget about you). It's so nice to see in an ocean of weak admissions guides and "survival guides" an actual explanation of how to apply and develop one's mental and social faculties.

well written, informative guide

This book is smartly entertaining and informative without adopting a gimmicky, motivational tone. It provides relvant, strong advice derrived from surveying real straight A students at top schools. Each of the organizational and study strategies are modifiable for personal application. A good buy along with Cal Newport's How to Win at College.

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worth the money and time