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Title: What Smart Students Know : Maximum Grades. Optimum Learning. Minimum Time. by ADAM ROBINSON ISBN: 0-517-88085-7 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 27 July, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (37 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Frustrating
Comment: I was honestly very excited when I initially read this book. Then I proceeded to apply the 12 questions to the actual book so that I could learn it thoroughly. As with other study techniques I have tried from other books I found that this one is just too time consuming. I also have tried to apply it all of this past semester and I have had time to implement only about 20 or 30% of it. It's just not simple and concise enough to be effective.
Mr. Robinson's views on the education system are dead on, and I totally agree with him and then some. I am more extreme than him in that I believe that not only are textbooks and classes boring and not very applicable to real life, but that texts are, in fact, among the most poorly written non-fiction books in existence and totally useless with regards to actually learning a subject so that it may be applied effectively; I also believe that most if not all classes in high school and college are completely useless to the point that the whole system is just unredeemable. Oh, by the way, I am a junior at Tulane University. This is coming from someone attending one of the best colleges in the country.
Rating: 5
Summary: Start studying right!
Comment: I am going to be a first year in medical school in the fall and bought several books to help me get maximum benefit with minimum time spent studying. Because medical school consists of so much material in a short period of time, I needed to learn study techniques that were unlike my old ones-read, take notes, reread until the test. I have read this book and started implimenting the techniques. They really work. I agree that it would be better to start before a semester begins because the techniques are vastly different from how normal students prepare for exams and would be hard to impliment while taking classes. It is well worth it, though, especially if you are in or are planning to go to college or graduate school. It is a must have.
Rating: 5
Summary: This book SAVES time, it is NOT more time consuming!
Comment: Like the other reviewers, I was and am super-impressed with the learning techniques Robinson advocates. A few of the reviewers, however, object that to use all of the techniques requires too much time or effort.
These reviewers miss Robinson's primary point: that traditional "learning" methods are boring, time-consuming, AND ineffective. Think of the methods as a football quarter-back's "playbook:" you don't have to run EVERY play in the book in EVERY game. Robinson himself says that the methods do not apply in every course, and that some methods apply more in some types of courses than others. Robinson does NOT tell students to employ ALL the methods ALL the time.
Another point I'd like to make is that any new set of learning techniques takes time. Heck, typing took me forever to master; but now that I've invested the time it saves me WAY more than the time I spent learning it.
Finally, Robinson's point is that HOWEVER MUCH time you have to devote to your studies, whether it's an hour a day per college course or an hour per week for a high school course -- whatever -- your time is best employed using these methods. If you're short of time, or the test isn't so important, Robinson says to cut back on the methods to fit your time budget and the importance of the test.
The more time you have, and the more important the test, the more you should use Robinson's methods. The less time you have, simply cut back. No biggie.
Either that, or go back to wasting all your time with the old "learning" methods of rereading your notes ad infinitum until test time.
Good luck!
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Title: Getting Straight A's by Gordon W. Green ISBN: 0818405716 Publisher: Lyle Stuart Hardcover Pub. Date: September, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: How to Study: Suggestions for High School and College Students by Arthur William Kornhauser, Diane M. Enerson, Diane M. Emerson ISBN: 0226451178 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: September, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
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Title: Learning to Learn: Strengthening Study Skills and Brain Power by Gloria Frender ISBN: 0865301417 Publisher: Incentive Pubns Pub. Date: 1990 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Study Power: Study Skills to Improve Your Learning and Your Grades by Wood Smethurst, William R., Ph.D. Luckie ISBN: 157129046X Publisher: Brookline Books Pub. Date: December, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Power Reading : The Best, Fastest, Easiest, Most Effective Course on Speedreading and Comprehension Ever Developed! by Rick Ostrov, Rick Ostrov ISBN: 0960170618 Publisher: The Education Press Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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