Straight-A Study Skills: More Than 200 Essential Strategies to Ace Your Exams, Boost Your Grades, and Achieve Lasting Academic Success

by Cynthia Clumeck Muchnick, Justin Ross Muchnick

Strategies that will transform your grades!

Straight-A Study Skills proves that you don't have to spend countless hours studying to get good grades. Using her experience as an educational consultant and a teacher, authors Cynthia Clumeck Muchnick and Justin Ross Muchnick have created an easy-to-use approach to learning important study skills and achieving academic success. Through more than 200 entry-based strategies, you will learn all there is to know about strengthening your academic performance, including how to:

Get the most out of class time. Find a note-taking system that works for you. Improve your writing skills and create compelling essays. Develop effective study habits. Choose the right classes and extracurricular activities. Prepare for standardized tests, quizzes, and final exams. This guide is broken down into quick and easy concepts, tactics, and tips that highlight essential information and allow you to quickly find the topics you need to focus on. With Straight-A Study Skills, you're guaranteed to sharpen your study skills, boost your grades, and position yourself for success!

Genres: Nonfiction

227 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 18, 2012

About the author

Cynthia Clumeck Muchnick, MA, is a graduate of Stanford University and has been working in education for the past 25+ years as a former Assistant Director of College Admission, high school teacher, educational consultant, and author of five other education-related books. She speaks professionally to parent, student, teacher, and business groups on topics such as study skills, the adolescent journey, college admission, and now the parent compass movement.

Reviews

[Savanah Gray · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good tips but apparently for the wrong age group. I bought this book to help my kids transition from several different curriculum styles and homeschool (we were a military family) so they could better transition to public school after I left the military. I bought it used online and when I saw it was for college students, I was worried I'd made a bad purchase. I shouldn't have worried. This was right up their alley and helped me implement some good habits.

But it since it written for college students I wonder why it has some pretty rudimentary guidelines. There are other books that are far better for college students and that show the Cornell Note taking method or provide methods to remember citation rules. This book seems to be more for middle to high school than college.

If you were a non-traditional student or homeschooling military parent, this book can help you identify and design good habits for middle school aged kids. I would not recommend this for a college student though. There are far better books a college student will favor than this book filled with information they already know.

Great gift for a middle schooler who might want to up their academic game though!

[Jillian · Rating 2 out of 5]

I think the title is a little misleading, as I thought that this book was going to be focused on study skills, but it instead has (too much?) wide-ranging information about testing, note-taking, studying, talking to teachers, participating in class, etc. Although I totally agree that all of these things do make a student a better learner and test-taker, they're not all study skills. The book seems geared both toward high schoolers and college students (which are very different audiences), but it leans more heavily toward college students, in my opinion. Also, it super advocates being a suck-up to teachers, which could have been expressed differently, as the core goal was to encourage students to engage with teachers and treat them like people (which is great advice).

[Lisa · Rating 2 out of 5]

If you’ve never stepped foot in a classroom, this book would be beneficial. Otherwise it is all common sense stuff that is taught or learned by observation in school imo.

[Rosie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like school, so naturally I read a book about studying. Many students may think they need to spend hours of cramming in order to study, but that's not necessarily true. This book provides a plethora of ways any student can improve their grades. I like the section on reviewing material and note taking skills. The book is very easy to read but I feel like it's geared more towards high schoolers, not college students. Still, if you're looking to improve your school performance,give this a try.

[Abdulsalam Alali · Rating 2 out of 5]

Easy-to-digest book .. yet it does not contain much important information :(

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