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Have a look at our testimonials page – I guarantee you it’ll motivate you to improve your study habits. So many of the students are not native English speakers – so if English is your primary or ONLY language – imagine how hard it is for someone to learn in a foreign language… And yet they do!
Simply amazing – click here -> to read a few inspirational student stories.
There is a dialogue in the comments to a recent blog post I wanted to draw your attention to… Click on the hyperlink to read the thread. You can add to the discussion!
http://www.get-better-grades.com/blog/being-smart-can-make-you-stupid/
If you’re a high school or college student who hasn’t yet bought my bestselling study book, you’ll be interested to know that business entrepreneurs and executives are buying it to enhance and accelerate their careers. The study habits, tips and skills I teach are universal and make a difference regardless where you are in the academic system or in your career. We are all life-long learners and those who learn faster, get ahead and stay ahead. It’s survival of the swiftest – the fastest learners!
This blog is all about helping you get better grades with the least amount of effort. One of our sponsors is http://www.StudyFinder.com.au. I thought I would introduce you to them, just in case you’d like to access up-to-date information for Australian students, in one convenient location.
What is Studyfinder?
Some of the biggest key issues facing our community and institutes are concerning skills gaps, dropout rates, employment opportunities and even affordability of going to school and studying. For example:
- Why are there large gaps between employment and education?
- Why are our dropout rates at Institutes across the country so high?
- Are our students getting the right education?
- Are students given the right information to choose the right course, program or career?
With a national focus on closing the gap on education and skills, we want to be the web-based ‘[portal’ that revolutionises the education debate so we don’t forget the basics and continue to help students to pick the right course, program or career?
StudyFinder wants to answer basic questions such as:
- Is it all too hard?
- Where do I begin?
- Where can I find more information?
It is quite hard to get started if you don’t know where to begin. The pressure about exams and looking for better grades prove to be too much for some. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Education has evolved and moved into ‘the NOW’.
Courses out there are not all text based, classroom environments, some and in fact most courses are now developing practical skills with little written activity involved. The focus to have “real world” teachers and experience with strong links to industry is becoming the trend.
Today, you can start your quest and get employed by only doing a short course or a certificate rather than having to complete a full-length degree. That means you can start to work, earn money and keep studying as you work.
StudyFinder.com.au wants to help you by providing you proper guidance with a new Australian website designed to remove the frustration and time wasted searching through multiple websites to get to the information you need as a student. It helps students of all levels to search, compare and find study options across a number of areas of study all across Australia.
The tools are available online at www.studyfinder.com.au the best thing is… it’s FREE to use when you register.
I am not into labels – I think they are a self-fulfilling prophecy. I know too many people who claim to be the World’s Worst (Best?) Procrastinator and buy ‘owning’ that label, they are reinforcing the very behaviour they actually want to avoid.
With ADHD it’s often the same thing, but that is a discussion for another day.
If you think you have ADD or ADHD, let me show you how you can USE your so-called affliction and HELP you get BETTER GRADES.
Watch the video below and you’ll see if you can keep up. If you can’t you certainly don’t have ADD or ADHD.
If you can keep up – FANTASTIC. It doesn’t mean you have or don’t have ADD or ADHD, it just means you can read really, really fast.
Chances are if you think you’re ADHD or ADD, you simply lack the discipline to FOCUS, when Speed Reading – YOU HAVE TO FOCUS, you have NO CHOICE.
Give it a go buy the Speed Reading Video Program <- by clicking here and see how you go!
Simply stated, most students struggle in school because they don’t know how they learn, In Chapter 1 of my worldwide bestselling study book, I explain step-by-step how you can determine what learning style you have so you can stop wasting countless hours staring at your books, frustrated because nothing’s making sense and you can’t remember anything you tried to memorise the previous day.
If you don’t know HOW you learn, you’ll keep struggling in school. Knowing your learning style can be a life-changing revelation.
Let me put it this way – if you’re one of these styles and you don’t know it, chances are, if you’ve just started high school, you probably won’t make it to college.
If you do get to college, you’ll get kicked out within the first year.
Not because you’re dumb, but because you weren’t smart enough to learn HOW you learn.
I know how harsh this sounds, but it’s better that I tell you the truth NOW when you have a chance to fix the problem once and for all.
This blog is all about helping students get better grades. As you will notice, more pages are being added to the blog portion of this study skills site to give you the information and advice you need.
I recently added a new section aimed at parents. It covers what parents can do to help their kids get better grades from primary school to university. Also included are pages on the costs of university degrees and the value of a degree with a special page just for Australian degrees.
It’s important that parents remind their kids that an education is an investment that pays off for a lifetime. All the statistics reflect the need to learn skills that are marketable and valuable to employers or lead to self-employment.
I see it everyday – business people and entrepreneurs who struggle with basic writing skills or are challenged with high school level math problems. It’s painful to see because even though it’s never too late to learn, it’s been shown it’s a lot harder to learn as you get older.
Learn as much as you can, as soon as you can – you’ll not only get the benefit for a longer period of time, it will be easier and faster than any other alternative. No one can go back in time, but we can all think ahead and act accordingly.
Keep an eye on these pages – they will be updated and expanded on an on-going basis.
As you know from my study book, I am a big supporter of identifying a student’s learning style so you learn HOW to learn. If you don’t know what learning styles are, just answer these questions:
- Are you frustrated with your child’s low grades or lack of motivation?
- Is your home life stressful due to homework hassles and poor report cards?
- Have you tried absolutely everything to help your child get higher grades?
- Do you have a bright child who seems to know information, then forgets it during the test?
- Are you truly serious about doing something different to help your child succeed?
If You Answered “YES!” then keep reading to find out how you can help raise your child’s grades just in time for the very next report card…
I promise your situation is not unique. What you also need to know is that your child’s situation is NOT hopeless.
The problem is that children who suffer from learning challenges have been mis-lead with the 4 biggest myths by well-meaning teachers, other parents and even some learning authorities.
Here are the 4 biggest myths about learning that will never get you the results you want:
- The first is that you must teach TO your child’s preferred learning style, because schools who teach TO every child’s learning style produce better results. (This statement is so misleading that a recent article in the Washington Post said the theory of teaching to multiple intelligences was just that – a theory, and not working in the real world at all). More about this later…
- The second is that kids with low grades are lazy and unmotivated and simply do not take tests well.
- The third is kids who cannot sit still and pay attention are most likely to have attention deficit disorders of some kind. ADD or ADHD can very often be something else in disguise.
- The fourth is that some kids who struggle in school simply don’t like to read, or spell, or do math, etc. (This is one of the worst. It’s only when children constantly experience failure that they don’t want to read or do their schoolwork).
The plain truth is, kids love to learn when they are successful.
But sometimes, they just don’t know how to “win the school game” because no one has taken the time to show them “HOW TO LEARN”.
Think about it. Every day, your child is given assignments and told what to learn. This is like a baseball coach giving a player a written test to see if he or she can make the team. No one is showing your child “how to learn”. You can’t just tell a child, “learn this for the test” and then if they don’t do well, blame them.
Wouldn’t you agree that it’s crazy to think you’ll get different results if you keep doing the same thing over and over again?
That’s why you need to do something different… That’s where this learning toolkit comes in.
Click on the hyperlink -> to help your child get better grades in school.
Studying is always stressful and filled with pressure – it’s even more daunting when you’re a mature student, who has been out of school for 10, 20 or even 30 years… Like Sue Wickliffe of Omaha, Nebraska. In today’s post, I have a few recommendations for someone who’s going back to school after a long absence…
Hi, Dr. Dussault.
I found your website by accident. I belong to IAAP (International Association of Administrative Professionals) and I have been an admin/executive assistant for 35+ years.
Here I am… I’m going to be 60 in April and the IAAP Chapter that I belong to here in Omaha, Nebraska talked me into becoming certified. I’m currently thinking … “What did I get myself into.” There are four large books I will be studying:
1) Office Systems and Technology
2) Office Administration
3) Management
4) Advanced Management
I have an electronic version of these books (which is better than the books themselves). The actual books are too wordy. Loses the reader. On the electronic version there was a link to “Ask Jeeves” and I typed in How to study. Voila!!! There was your website. I purchased your book “Get The Best Grades With The Least Amount Of Effort” as well as your Speed Reading Video Program.
Right now I’m feeling overwhelmed and haven’t studied since high school. I’m hoping your materials will help me. I plan to apply them. The big 6-hour test will take place this November and the other two hour test (for the last book) will take place in May 2011.
The Good Lord gave me a brain and people like you to bring it to fruition.
I’ll keep you posted on my progress.
ONWARD AND UPWARD!!!
Sue Wickliffe (I hope to have CPS and CAP initials after my name soon)
Study Tips For A Mature Student Going Back To School.
One of our affiliate referral sites, www.mature-student-tips.com has quite a bit of useful content for a mature student going back to school.
Go there and have a look. I’m sure you’ll find some great ideas. We like to support people who endorse our products and programs!
The Economist Magazine recently reported that a male university graduate will make $82,000 more in his working lifetime than his non-university graduate peer. This includes the cost of tuition, lost wages while studying as well as extra taxes paid. What this simply means is that it pays to get better grades.
But getting better grades is not just about winging it – you need to be systematic and discipline about it. My study book and this blog are great way to learn to get better grades with less effort. My study book comes with many bonus materials that will help you – go to the product page now and check it out.
Todays post is courtesy of the folks at www.HomeDeclutterAndFun.com, with the original source being Cambridge University, so it comes from a very authoritative source. Dyslexic students can get better grades, as I mentioned in a previous post. Dyslexia is not a excuse to get poor grades – people of ALL levels of intelligence have been diagnosed as dyslexics.
In fact I’ll prove it to you…
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phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm.
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Psas Ti ON !
This is what you can do when you get an Exponential Mindset – break through barriers that other people trip, stumble and fall over. You can then succeed and Get The Best Grades With The Least Amount Of Effort!
I was recently asked if my Get The Best Grades With The Least Amount Of Effort can help dyslexic students and the answer is a resounding yes! The reason is that my study techniques help YOU discover and reveal HOW you learn best and gives you a framework to do it over and over again – effortlessly.
Also, you can use Rapid Reader to speed read your WORD and PDF documents at lightning fast speed – ESPECIALLY if your dyslexic. Give the video a go below and see what happens… Imagine how easier it will be for you to read this way!
Some dyslexic students have found that ONCE they’ve used Rapid Reader for a while, their dyslexia ‘subsides’ which makes no sense, but they don’t care!!!
So there you have it – another reason to buy my Get The Best Grades With Least Amount Of Effort Book!
