Student Success Secrets

by Eric Jensen

Book Overview

These sure-fire strategies can increase test scores and raise grades dramatically. Updated to meet the needs of today's students, this popular guide offers productive approaches to developing good... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764120077
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Barrons Educational Series
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

The three books which have influenced my understanding of effective studying during the early years!

1) Student Success Secrets (1979), by Eric Jensen; 2) You Can Succeed: The Ultimate Study Guide for Students (1979), by Eric Jensen; 3) B's & A's in 30 Days: Strategies for Better Grades in College (1994), by Eric Jensen; Over the last two decades & within the realm of study strategies, I have amassed a vast repertoire of books & resources on the subject. They cover a very comprehensive & broad academic range from young children through teen/college students all the way to university/matured students. This is attributed to my deep personal interest in understanding the `concept of studying' as well as my relentless search for the `study smart process'. Many of the ideas & techniques have been adapted & put to work in my own public workshops as well as in collaborative school projects. Amidst the many books I have owned & read about the study process, only a few of them have been my personal favourites. They include: Walter Pauk's 'How to Study in College' (1974), Adam Robinson's `What Smart Students Know: Maximum Grades. Optimum Learning, Minimum Time' (1993) & William Armstrong's `Study Is Hard Work: The Most Accessible and Lucid Text Available on Acquiring & Keeping Study Skills Through a Lifetime' (1995). However, there are three books which have influenced my understanding during the very early years. They are listed above. The decisive factor in acquiring all the three early books, by Eric Jensen, more or less lies in his impressive track record in education. As a teacher in the middle schools, he co-founded the internationally-acclaimed SuperCamp, a residential summer camp for teens, pre-teens and college-age students, with Bobbi dePorter in the early eighties. [In the late seventies, Bobbi studied with Dr Georgi Lozanov, father of accelerated learning, & applied the innovative methods to her highly-successful, but now-defunct, Burklyn Business School. Seeing an urgent need to teach school children how to learn, she later applied the techniques in SuperCamp, a youth program. In the years since, SuperCamp has helped over 45,000 students re-learn how they learn & reshape how they live their lives.] Eric left a few years later to create Turning Point for Teachers, a training outfit applying the innovative accelerated learning techniques to teaching staff development, which eventually become Jensen Learning, a consultancy outfit. The specialty of Jensen Learning is the integration of brain research into practical, user-friendly training applications & it has trained more educators/teachers in brain- based learning than anyone else in the world with over 50,000 graduates. He also subsequently wrote more than two dozen books about how to apply brain science to learning & education, including `Super-Teaching' & `Teaching with the Brain in Mind'. All Eric's early three book as mentioned above essentially focus on the development of effective study strategies. `Student Success Secrets' is primarily targeted

The book which changed my life

This book is way more then a study tips book , it shows you how to manage your life , tips for setting up a schedule you can follow. The book has a priceless tip called the goals visualaztion section , Which tells you how to write out what you want your life to be like in 20 years 6 yeas 5 months and then finally this week . Its amazing how 1 tip can change a life for the better and thats what this book did for me and my Computer tech career

Great Book!

This book is wonderful! It covers everything... study environment to note taking to keeping balance between school and your other lives! The text is easy to read, and the pictures put a funny outlook on the text. The ideas given are fantastic and make you think, too. The writing section gives a fresh outlook on how to write.