Download or read book How to Get Top Grades in Your Exams written by Ross Dickinson and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This upbeat, easy-to-use guide will show you how to organise your work, revise effectively and prepare for exam day to give you the best chance of getting top grades. Most importantly, this book will help you find the best approach for YOU. Includes: preparing your revision environment ; organising your notes; using the right revision methods; choosing reliable online resources; best practice for exam day.
Download or read book Tricks for Good Grades Second Edition written by Ron Kurtus and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tricks for Good Grades" provides students with methods and strategies to excel in school and get better grades. It shows how to zip through homework, do better in tests, and get along with teachers, among other topics. The book is aimed as middle school and high school students and is based on lessons from the School for Champions educational website (www.school-for-champions.com).
Download or read book Making the Grade written by Martin V. Covington and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-04-24 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Achievement behaviour in schools can best be understood in terms of attempts by students to maintain a positive self-image. For many students, trying hard is frightening because a combination of effort and failure implies low ability, which is often equated with worthlessness. Thus many students described as unmotivated are in actuality highly motivated - not to learn, but to avoid failure. Students have a variety of techniques for avoiding failure, ranging from cheating to setting low goals which are easily achieved. In Making the Grade, Martin Covington extracts powerful educational implications from self-worth theory and other contemporary views of motivation that will be useful for everyone concerned with the educational dilemmas we face. He provides a comprehensive, insightful review of research and theory, both contemporary and historical, on the topic of achievement motivation, and arranges this knowledge in ways that lead to imminently practical recommendations for restructuring schools.
Download or read book B Grades A College Application written by Joie Jager-Hyman and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This alternative college guide from a former Dartmouth assistant admissions director-turned-consultant gives non-straight-A students advice on the many options available to them and tips on how to identify, gain admittance to, and pay for the schools that will allow them to flourish. Less-than-perfect grades? No problem! Contrary to popular opinion, you don’t need to have a 4.0 GPA or a perfect jump shot to get into a good college. This insider’s guide reveals easy tweaks that will pay off big-time in showing admissions officers that you as a whole—not just your SAT scores—are a perfect fit for their incoming class. With stellar advice on getting into schools that will allow you to thrive, this handbook reveals how to: Find great colleges that are a good match for your strengths (and will overlook less-relevant weaknesses) Painlessly beef up your application Tailor extracurriculars to showcase your uniqueness Make sure your recommendation letters emphasize the right qualities Write original essays that reveal traits beyond your transcript Make an impression on admissions officers and college interviewers Create an early-admissions strategy to increase your likelihood of acceptance Help your chances if you’re deferred Get into brand-name schools through the side door Communicate about learning disabilities or special circumstances Get scholarship money based on attributes other than grades Customize your financial aid strategy BONUS: Includes an appendix of 130+ selective colleges to consider!
Download or read book Make Top Grades written by Nicola Watson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make Top Grades Description:“MAKE TOP GRADES: How to make a 4.0 GPA” is a guide to achieving the best grades in any academic or scholastic setting – from Middle School to High School and College. It includes strategies, tips and tricks for earning these grades, in addition to key points to help you learn to study. You do not need to be a genius to make the best grades. This book includes proven strategies learned by the author throughout her studies in the Caribbean and America – strategies that have delivered only the best GPA and grades in National, Regional and International exams. Implement the strategies included in this book, and watch your GPA skyrocket and the scholarships roll in.
Download or read book Grade Grabbers written by Richard Marquis and published by . This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Is it possible to get better grades! ABSOLUTELY! You are the best reason for your success. You have the power to transform your life - beginning now! Unlock your own inner success strategies. Discover essential learning tips, tricks and tactics that work like magic. Uncover secrets that top students use and maximize your grade-earning power." -- Publisher.
Download or read book Making the Grade written by Howard S. Becker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on three years of detailed anthropological observation, this account of undergraduate culture portrays students' academic relations to faculty and administration as one of subjection. With rare intervals in crisis moments, student life has always been dominated by grades and grade point averages. The authors of Making the Grade maintain that, though it has taken different forms from tune to time, the emphasis on grades has persisted in academic life. From this premise they argue that the social organization giving rise to this emphasis has remained remarkably stable throughout the century. Becker, Geer, and Hughes discuss various aspects of college life and examine the degree of autonomy students have over each facet of their lives. Students negotiate with authorities the conditions of campus political and organizational life--the student government, independent student organizations, and the student newspaper--and preserve substantial areas of autonomous action for themselves. Those same authorities leave them to run such aspects of their private lives as friendships and dating as they wish. But, when it comes to academic matters, students are subject to the decisions of college faculties and administrators. Becker deals with this continuing lack of autonomy in student life in his new introduction. He also examines new phenomena, such as the impact of -grade inflation- and how the world of real adult work has increasingly made professional and technical expertise, in addition to high grades, the necessary condition for success. Making the Grade continues to be an unparalleled contribution to the studies of academics, students, and college life. It will be of interest to university administrators, professors, students, and sociologists.
Download or read book Secrets to Top Grades in College and Why Grades Matter written by Dr Lane Scheiber and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-09-23 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many books dedicated to how to study. This book differs from them in two ways. First, it starts where the others end. It is the rest of the story. It describes events and activities that go on inside and outside of your classes that can potentially impact your grades in significant ways. It provides techniques that you can utilize to turn these events and activities into opportunities to improve your grades beyond what studying alone can provide. Second, it describes why grades matter. It is hard to get motivated to really work for something if you don't see any significant rewards in spending the effort. This book explains the many ways that grades, good and bad, will impact you career as well as your life. Understanding how recruiters, managers, and universities will look at you when you apply for jobs and advanced degrees will help you will provide a foundation for that additional work. Two good questions are where did these techniques come from and do they work? Here are the answers. The author entered the adult world with little more than a poor high school education. He soon realized that his lack of job skills had put his life on a direct path to nowhere. At 191/2 he began a quest to improve his situation. It took him five years to get into college. Once there he realized that the easy part was over. The real problem was staying there. That is, earning the grades required to progress through college and earn a degree in his chosen field - electrical engineering. Faced with substantial competition and a strong desire to survive, the author studied the little known process by which grades come about and developed techniques to increase his probability of getting top grades. Do the techniques work? You be the judge. In the book, the author explains the techniques and how they helped him graduate with a 3.94 average, and then go on to obtain a doctorate from one of the best engineering schools in the country. Sound good? There is more. As time passed, the author realized that what you do in college, and how you do it, sets the stage for your career as well as the rest of your life. Understanding the many ways grades can impact your career and life is fundamental to achieving success in those worlds. Grades are a springboard to opportunities. The stronger your springboard, the higher your potential. While this book provides techniques to help you improve your grades, it does much more. It shows that working on grades can enhance one's problem solving skills. Skills which are crucial to success in one's career as well as one's life. Skills that will further strengthen your springboard. Remember: companies hire to obtain skills, not people. This book will help you learn, refine, and maintain those skills.
Download or read book Grading for Equity written by Joe Feldman and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Joe Feldman shows us how we can use grading to help students become the leaders of their own learning and lift the veil on how to succeed. . . . This must-have book will help teachers learn to implement improved, equity-focused grading for impact." —Zaretta Hammond, Author of Culturally Responsive Teaching & The Brain Crack open the grading conversation Here at last—and none too soon—is a resource that delivers the research base, tools, and courage to tackle one of the most challenging and emotionally charged conversations in today’s schools: our inconsistent grading practices and the ways they can inadvertently perpetuate the achievement and opportunity gaps among our students. With Grading for Equity, Joe Feldman cuts to the core of the conversation, revealing how grading practices that are accurate, bias-resistant, and motivational will improve learning, minimize grade inflation, reduce failure rates, and become a lever for creating stronger teacher-student relationships and more caring classrooms. Essential reading for schoolwide and individual book study or for student advocates, Grading for Equity provides A critical historical backdrop, describing how our inherited system of grading was originally set up as a sorting mechanism to provide or deny opportunity, control students, and endorse a "fixed mindset" about students’ academic potential—practices that are still in place a century later A summary of the research on motivation and equitable teaching and learning, establishing a rock-solid foundation and a "true north" orientation toward equitable grading practices Specific grading practices that are more equitable, along with teacher examples, strategies to solve common hiccups and concerns, and evidence of effectiveness Reflection tools for facilitating individual or group engagement and understanding As Joe writes, "Grading practices are a mirror not just for students, but for us as their teachers." Each one of us should start by asking, "What do my grading practices say about who I am and what I believe?" Then, let’s make the choice to do things differently . . . with Grading for Equity as a dog-eared reference.
Download or read book Ungrading written by Susan Debra Blum and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moment is right for critical reflection on what has been assumed to be a core part of schooling. In Ungrading, fifteen educators write about their diverse experiences going gradeless. Some contributors are new to the practice and some have been engaging in it for decades. Some are in humanities and social sciences, some in STEM fields. Some are in higher education, but some are the K-12 pioneers who led the way. Based on rigorous and replicated research, this is the first book to show why and how faculty who wish to focus on learning, rather than sorting or judging, might proceed. It includes honest reflection on what makes ungrading challenging, and testimonials about what makes it transformative. CONTRIBUTORS: Aaron Blackwelder Susan D. Blum Arthur Chiaravalli Gary Chu Cathy N. Davidson Laura Gibbs Christina Katopodis Joy Kirr Alfie Kohn Christopher Riesbeck Starr Sackstein Marcus Schultz-Bergin Clarissa Sorensen-Unruh Jesse Stommel John Warner
Download or read book Making the Grade written by William A. Fischel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-11-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant factor for many people deciding where to live is the quality of the local school district, with superior schools creating a price premium for housing. The result is a “race to the top,” as all school districts attempt to improve their performance in order to attract homebuyers. Given the importance of school districts to the daily lives of children and families, it is surprising that their evolution has not received much attention. In this provocative book, William Fischel argues that the historical development of school districts reflects Americans’ desire to make their communities attractive to outsiders. The result has been a standardized, interchangeable system of education not overly demanding for either students or teachers, one that involved parents and local voters in its governance and finance. Innovative in its focus on bottom-up processes generated by individual behaviors rather than top-down decisions by bureaucrats, Making the Grade provides a new perspective on education reform that emphasizes how public schools form the basis for the localized social capital in American towns and cities.
Download or read book School Of Dreams written by Edward Humes and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the price of an education at a top public high school? Whitney High delivers everything we ask of a school: a love of learning, a sense of mission, and SAT scores to die for. But there are unintended consequences to attending the school of our dreams, as author Edward Humes found during his year inside this world of high achievement and high pressure. Students work nearly around the clock, building futures to please parents as much as themselves. Their drug of choice? Caffeine. Their goal? Getting into a top college. Their biggest fear? Not living up to their families' stratospheric expectations. But what these kids have going for them is the extraordinary community within Whitney High-- a school with doors open seven days a week, where teachers love teaching and the students linger long after the school day ends.
Download or read book Secrets to Top Grades in College and Why Grades Matter written by Ben Lane and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-07 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many books dedicated to how to study. This book differs from them in two ways. First, it starts where the others end. It is the rest of the story. It describes events and activities that go on inside and outside of your classes that can potentially impact your grades in significant ways. It provides techniques that you can utilize to turn these events and activities into opportunities to improve your grades beyond what studying alone can provide. Second, it describes why grades matter. It is hard to get motivated to really work for something if you don't see any significant rewards in spending the effort. This book explains the many ways that grades, good and bad, will impact you career as well as your life. Understanding how recruiters, managers, and universities will look at you when you apply for jobs and advanced degrees will help you will provide a foundation for that additional work. Two good questions are where did these techniques come from and do they work? Here are the answers. The author entered the adult world with little more than a poor high school education. He soon realized that his lack of job skills had put his life on a direct path to nowhere. At 191/2 he began a quest to improve his situation. It took him five years to get into college. Once there he realized that the easy part was over. The real problem was staying there. That is, earning the grades required to progress through college and earn a degree in his chosen field - electrical engineering. Faced with substantial competition and a strong desire to survive, the author studied the little known process by which grades come about and developed techniques to increase his probability of getting top grades. Do the techniques work? You be the judge. In the book, the author explains the techniques and how they helped him graduate with a 3.94 average, and then go on to obtain a doctorate from one of the best engineering schools in the country. Sound good? There is more. As time passed, the author realized that what you do in college, and how you do it, sets the stage for your career as well as the rest of your life. Understanding the many ways grades can impact your career and life is fundamental to achieving success in those worlds. Grades are a springboard to opportunities. The stronger your springboard, the higher your potential. While this book provides techniques to help you improve your grades, it does much more. It shows that working on grades can enhance one's problem solving skills. Skills which are crucial to success in one's career as well as one's life. Skills that will further strengthen your springboard. Remember: companies hire to obtain skills, not people. This book will help you learn, refine, and maintain those skills.
Download or read book Helping Your Child Get Top Grades written by Alan M. Solomon and published by McGraw-Hill/Contemporary. This book was released on 1988 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Graduate School written by David G. Mumby and published by PRTPS. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at college and university students in all major fields of study, this book covers everything one needs to know about how to apply successfully to graduate school in North America.
Download or read book Ultimate Guide for Making Top Grades in College written by Koorosh Naghshineh and published by . This book was released on 2022-08-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College success is about more than knowing your subject... You need some sneaky extra tactics too. And you're about to discover them all...The real reason why most people don't make the grades they need, or become so disheartened that they drop out of college early, has nothing to do with the subject they're studying or their drive to succeed? It's because they lack essential study skills and inside knowledge.And study skills are only part of the recipe? It's all about how you approach your education, and there are a ton of secrets you're probably missing out on.But not for long? You're about to gain access to everything you need to succeed.Written by a retired professor and department chair, this one-of-a-kind guide shines a light on all the little extras you can weave into your time at college? the extras your own instructors are too busy to show you. If you thought being passionate about your subject was enough, think again. If you want to come out top of the class, you need that little extra spark up your sleeve? and this guide will help you find it?And once you do, you'll have skills to last you long after you graduate with flying colors.
Download or read book De Grading Education written by Elizabeth Wissner-Gross and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's 200-year-old high school grading process is outdated, haphazard, and subjective and has been subverting American education, and yet grades control students' access to the widest variety of educational and career opportunities . This book provides a guide for parents wanting to make sure that their high school students aren't denied opportunities as a result of archaic practices.
