Title:
Getting straight A's : a students guide to success
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Publication Information:
London : Routledge, 2006
ISBN:
9780415356237
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Summary
Summary
Packed full of invaluable and practical advice, tips, quizzes and self-assessment exercises for fifteen to eighteen year olds, this guide, written with the keenest and most ambitious students in mind, will help you to maximise your academic potenitial and achieve the results you need. Written by an acknowledged expert in the field, this study guide will help you to:
assess your own strengths and weaknesses make the best use of available resources effectively manage your time and prioritise your workload develop essay-writing and note-taking skills excel in exams and coursework.Considered a natural companion to the author's highly successful Brain Train, this book maximises academic potential both in coursework and exams amongst GCSE and AS/A-level students, effectively, simply, and without exhausting and counter-productive effort.
Author Notes
Richard Palmer is Head of English at Bedford School
Table of Contents
| Preface and acknowledgements | p. ix |
| 1 Naming it | p. 1 |
| Preliminary: why real achievers don't do drugs | p. 1 |
| Situation report | p. 2 |
| The importance of the pleasure principle | p. 7 |
| Seductive stupidities: those 'S' words revisited | p. 8 |
| Conclusion | p. 23 |
| 2 Using it | p. 24 |
| Arming yourself | p. 24 |
| Knowing yourself | p. 32 |
| Advancing yourself | p. 34 |
| 3 Sorting it | p. 37 |
| Respecting the obvious | p. 37 |
| Self-management I: get to know your brain | p. 37 |
| Self-management II: equipment and assets | p. 40 |
| Self-management III: scheduling | p. 47 |
| Self-management IV: comforts and pleasures | p. 48 |
| Going beyond the obvious | p. 50 |
| Concentration | p. 50 |
| Challenge and self-confidence | p. 54 |
| Punctuation and paragraphing | p. 55 |
| Conclusion | p. 71 |
| 4 Nailing it | p. 74 |
| Thinking for fun and profit | p. 74 |
| What is knowledge? | p. 74 |
| What types of knowledge are there? | p. 82 |
| Common fallacies/disreputable or specious arguing | p. 88 |
| Justifying your thinking I: Good reasons | p. 95 |
| Justifying your thinking II: Good instincts | p. 99 |
| Conclusion | p. 103 |
| 5 Doing it | p. 105 |
| Preliminary | p. 105 |
| Eyes right: speed-reading | p. 106 |
| Eyes wrong: screen reading | p. 108 |
| Note-taking | p. 112 |
| Writing | p. 117 |
| 6 Making it | p. 128 |
| Preliminary | p. 128 |
| Attitudes 1: Examiners - monsters, robots or humans? | p. 129 |
| Attitudes 2: priming yourself | p. 132 |
| Revision and review | p. 135 |
| In the exam hall | p. 139 |
| Conclusion | p. 145 |
| Appendix I Net practice | p. 146 |
| Appendix II Noting exercise (Chapter 5): a notional 'model answer' | p. 151 |
| Notes | p. 154 |
| Bibliography | p. 162 |
| Index | p. 164 |
