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Pros
You really get something from every chapter. The way the author writes is straight, so there isn't time wasted on trying to figure out what the author is trying to tell you, it is easy to follow.
What smart students know is a book by adam robinson. It gives students 12 questions to ask themselves when studying any subject. Adam robinson understands the attitudes and practices that make studying any topic effective and interesting.
Successful students are not necessarily any more brilliant than the less successful ones, but have simply mastered powerful habits. If schools tried harder to engage students that's when the real learning happens.
For those of you going for pre-law and law school ambitions, this book is a must! This books covers the reality of formal education and what you need to know, and how it differs from the real world of working and learning in the workplace.
Cons
The book is well-written and organized, but the techniques are so time-consuming, if you did all of them, you'd never finish your work on time. It's just not simple and concise enough to be effective. Some textbooks are full of completely irrelevant i... Read More
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Quality
This book changed the way i viewed my approach to classes and how to interact on an active level with the learning process
Adam robinson balances the need to get the grade with the true meaning of learning a subject
Smart students arent necessarily the ones with the highest iqs
I did much better and got mostly as with the few parts i did read
Competitiveness
Perfect present for my college bound 17yr old
I swear some of the dumbest folks in the world
It takes the guess work out of it and maybe you can change it up to fit your likings from there
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Either way i never made time to read what smart students know until i was bored on the train coming home
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Sadly not much has changed form 1993 when this book was written and the traditionalist approach to academia is still prevalent
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Warning this book requires a lot of work
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Current education system is anyway different than that time
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The techniques presented in this book may be hard to apply in real practice as well as some of them tend to be timeconsuming
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The problem with most textbooks is that they are usually dull often poorly written and difficult to read
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Presenting only one point of view they dont give the big picture
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He is quick to say that a 100 textbook approach to learning a subject is not ideal in fact despite the fact that most of us would consider him a genius he himself had no interest in school
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