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How to Become a Straight-A Student: The Unconventional Strategies Real College Students Use to Score High While Studying Less Paperback – December 26, 2006

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Looking to jumpstart your GPA? Most college students believe that straight A’s can be achieved only through cramming and painful all-nighters at the library. But Cal Newport knows that real straight-A students don’t study harder—they study smarter. A breakthrough approach to acing academic assignments, from quizzes and exams to essays and papers, How to Become a Straight-A Student reveals for the first time the proven study secrets of real straight-A students across the country and weaves them into a simple, practical system that anyone can master. You will learn how to:

Streamline and maximize your study time
Conquer procrastination
Absorb the material quickly and effectively
Know which reading assignments are critical—and which are not
Target the paper topics that wow professors
Provide A+ answers on exams
Write stellar prose without the agony

A strategic blueprint for success that promises more free time, more fun, and top-tier results, How to Become a Straight-A Student is the only study guide written by students for students—with the insider knowledge and real-world methods to help you master the college system and rise to the top of the class.

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“A smart, concise, fun, and above all informative guide on how to ace college by being smarter about how to work . . . This book is a must-have for anyone who wants to do well at college and enjoy it too.” —M. Cecilia Gaposchkin, Assistant Dean of Faculty for PreMajor Advising, Dartmouth College

“This book delivers on its title 100 Percent. I wish I'd had a copy when I was in college—I would have had a better GPA and a better social life!” —Jason Ryan Dorsey, author of My Reality Check Bounced!

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Cal Newport graduated from Dartmouth College, earned a Ph.D. from MIT, and is now an associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University. He’s the author of five books, including most recently the Wall Street Journal business bestseller Deep Work. He also runs the popular blog Study Hacks, which explores the impact of technology on our ability to perform productive work and lead satisfying lives. His contrarian ideas have been featured on many major media platforms, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Economist and NPR. Visit him online at calnewport.com.

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Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press; 32047th edition (December 26, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0767922719
ISBN-13: 978-0767922715
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.5 x 8 inches
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Average Customer Review: 368 customer reviews
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I have bought copies of this book for friends and family. This is only book I have ever done that for.

April 25, 2016

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I have used this book to improve not just one, but three areas: time management, learning, and writing. This book cuts to the core on all three areas. The 5-minute planning strategy is excellent. If you are involved in complex planning strategies, odds are that you are spending more time planning than actually doing. I was guilty of this without knowing it. Not now. The strategies for studying differently for technical courses vs. liberal arts courses is focused and works surprisingly well. The method for writing academic papers cut my thesis writing time by almost 40%. And I thought I was doing very well to start with. There are many books on studying available. I have read dozens and used most of them. This is the best one. Yes, this system uses simple tricks. But put them together, and it is an incredibly strong system. I could brag and say what good things I have been able to achieve after I started using this system, but I would rather ask you to try it for yourself.

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December 13, 2016

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This book lives up to its name completely. The strategies presented in this book, when followed, make academic excellence a habit. You'll never find a closer thing to a step-by-step guide to improving your GPA. You don't even have to read the entire thing (it's not even that big of a book), I didn't and I still got straight A's. Probably my favorite thing about this book was that it didn't just list off "tips." It gives you full-blown techniques that you can learn and tailor to your own college life.

I'll share details about my experience. I achieved straight A's before, occasionally in high school and consistently at technical college, but never at a university. I could no longer skate by with taking good notes and the occasional last-minute cram session. This book helped me most with one of the key points of academic success: time management. This book offers an almost foolproof time and task management system when followed closely. You'll also find techniques for studying, writing papers, avoiding procrastination, taking exams, doing homework problem sets, and it works for any major. I'm a computer science major, and this book would work just as well for a political science, history, biology, education, or engineering major. I could take the study techniques and apply them to writing a program, for example.

I said that you don't have to read the entire thing, and that's true. I skimmed some sections, while I thoroughly read and re-read some other sections to ensure I absorbed everything. I'll also say that you don't have to stick to this book 100% of the time, that would be impossible, and the author knows it. Stuff happens, sometimes you simply don't have enough time. The techniques in this book can be resumed after weeks of neglect. I stuck to this book about 60% of the time over this last semester, the rest of the time I was in a never-ending loop of procrastination and last-minute study/programming marathons. When I got tired of that, I would return to the system and be back on track in no time.

This book doesn't make it effortless, academic success is still hard work for most. Those to whom it comes naturally are either in piece-of-cake majors, are flat-out geniuses, or, most likely, are employing the tactics listed in this book! Cal Newport interviews straight-A students from the top schools in the nation and shares their tactics with you. This book gives you all of the tools you will need to improve your grades in college, while having more free time!

Are you a good student but want to be a great student? Get the book. Are you a nervous high school senior who doesn't know what to expect in college but wants to hit the ground running? Get the book. Are you struggling to manage all your coursework and you simply feel like there are not enough hours in the day? Get the book. It's one of the best investments you'll make. Will you actually get all A's? Maybe not. Will your grades go up if you read this book and actively use the tools it provides? Definitely.

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Buy this book if your struggling with university or community college

August 2, 2016

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This book gave me confidence! I was a lazy student throughout high school. I barely got my high school diploma.

This year I have surprisingly become the top student in class. My instructor has said several times I'm the top student (grade wise). I made the only 100 last test lol.

I was a terrible student before this and after reading this book things changed.

Buy this book if your struggling with university or community college like I was.

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nicholas taylor

I couldn't get through college the first time around. ...

December 21, 2016

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I couldn't get through college the first time around. I used this to prepare for school before going back again 7 years after. I now have 4.0 gpa while completing 19 credits a semester (Going for an engineering major). Its often difficult to listen to others study recommendations, but Cal has such a simple strategy that it's realistically doable. I want to thank the author obviously, but also all the people who wrote a review!...caus I probably wouldn't have ordered it

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Juan Pablo Rodriguez

Great Introduction to improved learning

July 24, 2018

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To put it simply I would say that the tips and end of chapter summaries provide a great deal of help in adding tools to your students tool box of learning strategies, I would definitely recommend any college student to read this as the three sections (organization, grade improvement and research/essay development) provide anyone with at least one thing that could make a great deal of difference in succeed in college classes. It is important to realize that some of these strategies take effort and so this book wont turn just any student into a maestro, however, applied effectively I would say this book could make the difference between excelling in a class instead of merely succeeding. The writing is simple and interesting, making it an easy and quite enjoyable read.

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Katherine O'Brien, MA CCPS

Don't Hesitate! Buy it, Read it, and Implement these Strategies. They work!

March 3, 2018

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This book is right on the money. While it is written for college students, I use it with my college prep students and recommend they read it again after they graduate HS. With both an engineering and a humanities degree, I can attest to the fact that his strategies are exactly what is needed in both types of courses. Mr. Newport doesn't lecture; his style is very readable. It's more like a peer to peer conversation over a latte than anything else. It's nothing like a teacher lecturing how to do this...

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Good strategies, easy to understand

May 30, 2018

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This is the second book I have read by Cal Newport and I would highly recommend it. The only criticism I have is that he takes too much time re-emphasizing the amount of time saved by using his method, which becomes tedious at times. More importantly, he doesn't give a side by side comparison of two students using his and the conventional method, or show how it can be realistically utilized by someone with a full course load. It almost reads as if he views all college students as taking survey courses and don't have jobs in addition to school. I would have liked to heard more about that.

Like I said, however, this is a good book full of useful tips and strategies to manage ones time and grades in college.

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