The Art of Academic Finesse: How Ordinary Students Achieve Extraordinary GradesEveryone want a 4.0 average in school -- but how to do it? This first-and-only guide academic excellence promises even average students the path to grade point nirvana.The Art of Academic Finesse demonstrates practical, proven techniques based in common learning behaviors and study habits that can catapult students from the grade-point doldrums to the heady bights of cum-laude graduates.The author's up-to-date observations of the rituals, tics, idiosyncracies and of modern college life add an important, useful dimension to this in-college guide that goes far beyond the tool of the trade.The trip from unknown freshman to distinguished graduate can no longer be made using typical routes, such as simply studying a lot. Students needs to know the back country of academia in order to at success. This book is the map to that terrain |
Contents
Winning the Game Before It Begins | 9 |
During the Game | 41 |
End Game | 85 |
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