Summary

This book provides tips and strategies to help students earn better grades while studying less. The guide is organized into 10 steps covering different skill areas such as paying better attention in class, taking effective notes, and writing better papers. The main focus is to cut down study time while improving learning quality and study efficiency.

This transcript provides tips on how to effectively utilize Planning Mode and plan your education, week, and day to achieve better grades while studying less. It emphasizes the importance of having a plan for your entire education, grouping tasks by context, and prioritizing tasks to achieve the best results possible. This transcript provides tips and strategies for students to improve their productivity and time management skills.

It covers topics such as prioritizing tasks, timeboxing, estimating time accurately, breaking down projects into actionable steps, and more. This transcript provides tips on how to break up tasks and devote resources to each step, replicate test conditions, and emphasize active learning to earn better grades while studying less. This transcript discusses the importance of active learning and spaced repetition in studying.

Active learning involves engaging with the material, such as through note-taking and quizzing oneself, while spaced repetition involves studying information at increasing intervals to improve retention. The transcript also provides tips for studying math, including learning to notice confusion, understanding concepts rather than memorizing them, and practicing problem-solving. This PDF provides tips and strategies for students to improve their grades while studying less.

It covers topics such as note-taking, time management, and writing better papers. This transcript provides tips for writing a first draft, including skimming sources, creating short notes, and writing a 'shitty' first draft. The author recommends not being too critical of the first draft and writing in a place where you're not emotionally invested.

The transcript also suggests writing about the writing process and not being afraid to make mistakes.

PDF Text

1 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less) - Reddit sample :) by Thomas Frank, Copyright 2014 With the help of coffee and more coffee This book is free! Have a friend who would find it useful? They can get their own copy right here .

If you like what you read here, you’ll find tons more study tips, career advice, and other info on becoming an awesome college student at CollegeInfoGeek.com . 2 Introduction This is a special sample edition of the book, just for the readers of r/GetStudying! It contains the introduction as well as three chapters of the book that focus on: • Planning Methods • Study Tactics • Writing Great Papers If you like what you read, you can get the full book (with 7 more chapters) for free right here: collegeinfogeek.com/book .

Hope you enjoy it! There is a goat icon on the cover of this guide because putting it there made it easy to start this introduction. Also, goats are hilarious.

Moreover, goats are really smart, and they’d probably get damn good grades if they stopped yelling long enough to think about goat school. Enough about goat grades, though - this guide is meant to help you improve your grades. A couple facts to put out there before we begin: • For most students, my opinion on grades is that they do not need to be perfect.

After you define your goals, you’ll find that your coursework is not a magical Hogwarts train that will take you to them. It’ll help, but alone it’s inadequate. Focus on getting good grades while also gaining skills outside of class, building things, doing extracurriculars, making connections and - yes - making time to have fun.

Even if it’s just playing 10 minutes of Goat Simulator (don’t worry, that’s the last goat joke). • The main point of this guide is to help you earn better grades, but the almost-as-important subfocus is to cut down your study time . It’s my aim here to give you tools and tactics that help you perform better in less time .

There’s a neat little equation I invented below that explains this a little better. 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less) 3 The Study Time Equation What are the factors that actually go into earning awesome grades? In my mind, the best way to look at this is to envision the final goal not as the tangible reward - the grade - but rather as the state of being you want to achieve.

I define this as Desired Preparedness . This applies to any class you’re in - or, to get more granular, to any specific exam/assignment/project. The grade is simply a result you can use to quantify your desired preparedness.