Super Memory - Super Student: How to Raise Your Grades in 30 Days

by Harry Lorayne

Book Overview

Harry Lorayne is an internationally acclaimed memory expert. Here he displays his remarkable memory-training abilities in a book aimed at high-school and college students.

Memory is the stepping-stone to thinking, because without remembering facts, you cannot think, conceptualize, reason, make decisions, create. or contribute. There is no learning without memory.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316532681
• ISBN13: 9780316532686
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

This book is fantastic for college too! 10 stars

I come from a family of 15, if you include my mom and dad, (9 other brothers and 3 sisters, if I remember correctly). When I was in grade school some of my brothers would taunt me and say "You're so stupid, why even go to school?" I just wasn't interested in school work until I got in sports in Junior High and one couldn't play if one didn't keep their grades up. So I worked harder at school work. I remember when I was very young and my older, and much smarter, brother came home from Ohio State, he told everyone it is just extremely hard. He said he just couldn't hack it. So he quit college and joined the army. Well, I thought, if he can't make it in college how could I ever? So I resigned myself to never going to college. But about 15 years after graduating High School, my friends talked me into going to college. I'd tell them I'm just not smart enough. Well, they talked me into trying. So I bought Harry Lorayne's book. Smart move! Wow! With this book I was able to have 6 pages of notes and memorize a key word for each line on the pages. So when I'd take my History exams it was always a piece of cake. I had names, dates, places, events all memorized, and it was EASY! My math classes were so much easier too. This book impacted in a positive way every class I took. With this book I was able to maintain a 4.0. Yes, that's right, a 4.0. Dumb little ole me that my brothers berated was actually the smartest one of the bunch. How? because I found out how to PROPERLY USE the brain God gave me by using Harry Lorayne's techniques! Some of the students in college would give me the bird because they were jealous. I'd help some, who were not doing so well, with the techniques in this book and their grades would vastly improve just from spending a few minutes with them. I wish to thank Harry for helping me by having this book available. The title of the book is wrong though. If you work at the book (and it is fun!) you can raise your grades in a week. You can go from a 'D' or even an 'F' student to getting perfect grades on your tests if you just apply the techniques in this book. You can graduate with top honors in High School, and continue using this book in College and in Business after you get out. I'm not paid to write this. No one asked me to. I give it 10 stars as 5 is just not nearly good enough.

You get out of it what you put into it.

I was every guidance counselor's nightmare - top 2% in standardized test scores, bottom 20% of my class. I hated school, and I hated college even more. Then I found Harry Lorayne's book and it changed my life.My college had no maximum on the number of credits you could earn by challenging the course. After learning Harry Lorayne's methods I tested out of two and one half years of college in eight months and graduated early.We home school our eight children and we use this book with every one of them, to great success. I'm also the director of a learning center where we use this book as well.Read the book, do the exercises, and use the tools every day.

Harry Lorayne is the best!

To the person from Indonesia who called this "the kiddy way," I must say this: When I was in college (40 years ago), I searched for memory aids and found only mnemonic methods; I considered them to be artificial and did not use them.A year or so later, I met Harry Lorayne during a show (he was a mental expert and I was a musician). I was absolutely astounded at what he did and decided that however he did it, I would do the same thing. I told Harry that, and he laughed and said, "Just buy any of my books--they all say the same thing."I promptly bought ALL of his available books, found that he was correct, and returned all but one, "How to Develop a Super-power Memory." Yes, the method Harry teaches may seem to be a "kiddy way" or simplistic, but it REALLY works. My grades were "A"s thereafter. I remembered whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted, regardless of the detail.If Harry Lorayne's methods don't work for you, it is ONLY because you did not apply them. Period. Do not for a moment think that "miraculous" results cannot spring from "simple" methods.I also recommend anything Dr. Kenneth Higbee has written.Get Lorayne's and Higbee's books; do what they say; you WILL be successful.Peace.

Great if you can stick with it!

This book can make you an amazing student if you stick with it. It covers all the major memory systems and has some great chapters focusing on certain hard subjects (chem, history, music)I also reccomend The Memory Book by Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas. Its kind of like a big brother to this book and covers a llittle more info but does not focus specifically on school.

For those who always wanted their own school mentor...

I have used Harry Lorayne's phenomenal systems for 10 years ("Memory Power"). When my kids were only 3-5 years old, I was amazed at how I was able to play memory games with them, using his methods, and watch them perform incredible mind stunts effortlessly. Now that they are in school, I have been looking for something to help them learn more effectively. Lorayne's other books also refer to shortcuts for students, but this book is an absolute gold mine of practical examples. I cannot begin to fathom how much more pleasant my student days would have been if I'd had this book. Lorayne is indeed the world's greatest memory expert, but above all, his is a gifted teacher, as further evidenced in this fine book.