Product Details

• Actors: Claude Olney
• Format: VHS
• Number of tapes: 2
• Studio: Chesterbrook
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00022TQRO
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #156,094 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

A step-by-step training program to help students achieve higher grades. This seminar teaches students to learn more in less time -- with higher retention! The pressures of scholastic life can be so overwhelming, that many students can't "make the grade." And in today's highly competitive world of academics, superior grades and high test scores can be the determining factors in gaining entrance to good colleges, graduate schools, professional schools . . . even in securing the best paying jobs. Developed by Professor Claude Olney, "Where There's A Will There's an 'A'" is a comprehensive guide to the mechanics of better learning. Whether it's knowing where to sit in class . . . when to study . . . how to take SAT's . . . or how to select the proper courses . . . this highly motivational program will teach students how to STUDY SMART. And knowing how to study smart will lead students -- high school and college alike -- to the better grades they want. This is one educational tool no student in your family should be without!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Study Guide, September 27, 2005

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K. Hullander - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Where There's a Will There's an A: How to Get Better Grades in High School (VHS Tape)

I received a 2.8 in college on my first four years. After watching this tape, I turned my grades around. I loved watching these, and I give my students extra credit for watching it too. Some parts are a little boring for kids, but overall, it's an excellent helper. It really helped me.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FROM HIGH SCHOOL RESOURCE ROOM TO MEDICAL DOCTOR, April 2, 2008

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J. F. Pa - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Where There's a Will There's an A: How to Get Better Grades in High School (VHS Tape)

These tapes turned around my life! I went from ranking 315 out of 365 in high school to getting an MD degree. Currently I am an Emergency Room Attending Physician and credit my success to this professor and his tapes!

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Does Good News Have to be Exciting?, October 13, 2008

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Lester Lieberman "Mr5050" (El Paso, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Where There's a Will There's an A: How to Get Better Grades in High School (VHS Tape)

I retired from being a teacher of some 33 plus years in 2002, and for several years before that, I used this tape with some of my 9th grade classes. It was my failure of an effort towards teaching them better study skills. The dearth of study-capability my inner-city classes had begged attention, and one of my students' parents gave me this tape after I presented the problem at a Parent's Night.

I am sad to report the best part of this tape was the cover of the container. The college professor who presented the ideas to help students enhance their study skills, although a fine gentleman I am sure, had not perfected the capability himself of keeping adolescent students glued to the information he was giving. After my end-of-the-year critique gave me too many regrets for that activity, I broke it up into multiple small doses, and still always got boos and ughs when I set the tape up! It was a shame, since the information therein truly was valuable and insightful.

I now recommend OTHER materials to parents who ask me how they can help improve their child's study habits!