Product Description

This guide to successful studying offers advice on mastering the material; learning effective mental preparation; strengthening reading, note taking, and listening skills; and improving use of study time.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #142053 in Books
• Published on: 1993-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 64 pages

Customer Reviews

A concise guide to the basics
When the time comes, I'll probably send my daughter off to college with Strunk and White's Elements of Style and this book. Although How to Study lacks the style and wit of the Elements of Style, it shares its brevity and concentration on the fundamentals of its topic.

The book is a revised version of an old study guide available to freshmen at the School of Business in the University of Chicago, and it covers an enormous amount of ground in its 55 pages. As advertised, the advice is gimmick free, stressing the need for the student's motivation, which should come from some larger goal for the student's life.

Despite its common sense approach, How to Study offers nuggets of solid information and tips in each chapter, such as writing down distractions before studying to free them from your mind, the proper uses of memorization, and test-taking strategies.

There are no miracles in this book, only basic information on how to go about studying, getting the most out of reading material, listening to a lecture, studying for an exam, and a constant insistence on active learning, all presented in a brief, no-nonsense manner. There are few books that offer this much good information for this price.

Some addition for the self-learner
This book is a must read for serious students of high school and college. It starts from the study motive to the benefit of cramming. Much insight is included in a few pages. However, it is not totally suitable for the self-learner. Something could be added: Making the whole study plan, choosing what to study, and designing the strategy to carry out the plan. If you are a self-learner, you should notice this point.

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