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101 Ways to Make Studying Easier and Faster For High School Students: What Every Student Needs to Know Explained Simply | 
| Author: Janet Engle
Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Company (FL)
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 908974
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 1601382170
Dewey Decimal Number: 373.130281
EAN: 9781601382177
ASIN: 1601382170
Publication Date: August 5, 2008
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With many students today participating in extracurricular activities, jobs, clubs, and responsibilities at home, it is common to find an area that is lacking studying. Teachers have identified that poor study skills are often to blame. On the other hand, students have found that many of the textbooks and worksheets forced upon them are either boring or difficult to understand. Whether it is bad habits or complicated materials that prevent you from studying well, 101 Ways to Make Studying Easier and Faster for High School Students can help you improve the effectiveness of your studying. After all, effectiveness is not measured by the length of time spent studying, but by the level of comprehension. In this new book, you will learn how to make a study schedule, how to design an effective study space, how to read for comprehension, how to get organized, how to find your learning style, how to listen better in class, how to use reference sources, how to boost your concentration, and how to stay motivated. You will learn effective note taking strategies, where to study, when to study, time management skills, strategies for reading novels and text books, memorization techniques, and organizational skills. Additionally, you will find out how to stay awake while studying, how to change your current habits, and how to make studying more enjoyable. We will provide you with various studying methods, including flashcards, quizzes, summarizing, outlining, answering study guide questions, and the proven SQ3R method, as well as exercises to help improve your skills. Furthermore, 101 Ways to Make Studying Easier and Faster for High School Students is full of tips from students just like you, as well as teachers. No two people learn the same way, and no one study method will work for everyone. While this book introduces you to different study methods, the aim is to improve your learning, your understanding, and, ultimately, your grades.
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101 Ways to Make Studying Easier and Faster for High School Students: What Every Student Needs To Know Explained Simply October 17, 2008
Where was this book when I was in high school??? Janet Engel's 101 Ways to Make Studying Easier and Faster for High School Students: What Every Student Needs To Know Explained Simply
should be at the top of any Back To School shopping list. Not only does Engel provide tips for high school students but this book could also be used for late elementary, middle and in everyday life.
This book is broken down into easy read chapters chock full of useful information to get your student and yourself on the road to successful goal planning and boosting time management skills.
If you are organizationally challenged or just need a few pointers on how to get ready for a killer mid-term exam, Engel's book is a must have on your bookshelf.
The book provides excellent examples of tried and true methods for studying and includes suggestions on how others approach try to balance school, work and a social life.
Successful Study Habit can Cause Success in Life September 3, 2008
This book was written for the teenager getting ready to start high school but the 101 tips can be used by anyone that is trying to learn something new or prepare a project. As a parent I think that this book can help remind you just how hard it can be to finish homework.
Janet Engel goes into exacting detail using lists, study aids, journals, and calendars to help organize the study process. In many ways it can feel like overkill. However, this is how really successful people do things.
We all want our children to be successful, so I would recommend this book to all parents. This book would really help the student that is almost organized but needs help to get to the next level.
 The book I needed in high school September 3, 2008
It happens to most students at some point during their academic careers. For some reason, nothing just seems to stick. Perhaps it's dealing with a particular subject matter. Perhaps it's with nearly every subject, but putting in the time studying yields little results. It may not be the quantity of studying but the quality of studying. In the book "101 Ways to Make Studying Easier and Faster for High School Students" author Janet Engle, offers a number of practical tips to help students use their study time more effectively.
While most general study tips guides have a number of general rules that apply to studying subject matters in general, Engle goes much further than those traditional approaches. She offers study tips unique to every major subject. This can be crucially important to students who find themselves struggling in specific subject matters.
In the foreign language chapter for example, Engle suggests students struggling to learn grammatical concepts such as conjugations not rely on conjugation lists and other such tools. Rather, she suggests it may be more effective to write a sentence using each verb form. This will allow the student to think of the verb in its natural setting.
One of the tips in the math section encourages students to show their own work after every problem. Engle notes this is critical both for the student and the teacher. If a student is having trouble understanding a concept, an instructor is better able to help the student if each step used to arrive at the final answer is chronicled. Studying does not help if errors are not able to be rectified.
In addition to the specific tips in each subject matter, Engle gives reasons why students need to study certain subjects and what the long-term benefits and uses are. In doing this, Engle shows a good understanding of one of the biggest study problems high school students - motivation. If students don't see a practical application for their efforts, they will be less likely to give 100 percent. Engle seeks to answer the argument, "I'm never going to use this stuff!" before it is ever offered.
In addition to the tips that cover most major subjects, there are other attractive qualities to Engle's book as well. She never talks down to students, but always try to encourage, even when correcting bad habits. "Do not let a temporary situation become a permanent excuse for not reaching your goals," she exhorts. No detail is overlooked in the production quality of the book as well. The college-type font at the beginning of each chapter and with each subhead, no doubt, will serve to remind many high school students what the ultimate goal is.
While the title of the book suggests there are 101 tips, Engle actually provides many more than that. Many are listed as "sub-tips" to the main points. In some ways, the title of Engle's work actually sells the book short. Students, or parents, who purchase this book are getting way more than their money's worth. They may be getting an entire future.
An Excellant Teaching Guide On Study Habits! August 27, 2008
Your high school years can be very stressful and tiring. But having poor study habits can make high school even more stressful. In this comprehensive guide you will learn 101 tips to make studying easier.
Author Janet Engle has done an amazing job of compiling the most complete book of its kind on this subject. In this easy to read format you will learn techniques such as how to study easier and faster, how to make time for studying, how to find your learning style, how to create your own study space, how to read fast and well, how to control and get done long term assignments, and how to conquer your fears. And there are specific chapters on tips for math, language and arts, history and science. Even more is chapters and tips about last minute cramming and what to do for those four letter words exams and tests.
This is one book that will not only benefit high school and college students but parents of younger students teaching them good study habits at an early age will make their high school years, college and even in their future careers much easier. This book is beneficial for adults as well. If you need to learn proper studying habits this book will motivate you to help your life. Example being learn to take proper notes in your next company meeting! So whether you are a high school student, college student, parent of a younger student or an adult this is one book not to be missed.
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