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10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less)
10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less) by Thomas Frank, Copyright 2014
With the help of coffee and more coffee
This book is free! Have a friend who would find it useful?
They can get their own copy right here.
If you like what you read here, you’ll find tons more study tips, career advice, and other info on becoming an awesome college student at College Info Geek (collegeinfogeek.com).
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Thanks to all the students who helped edit the first draft of this book!
- Ransom P.
- Victoria C.
- Clayton B.
- Audrey C.
Cover icons:
- “Coffee” symbol is by Edward Boatman.
- “Book” symbol is by Eugen Belyakoff.
- “Goat” symbol is by Anand Prahlad.
- “Brain” symbol is by anonymous, public domain.
All icons are from thenounproject.com.
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Introduction
There is a goat icon on the cover of this guide because putting it there made it easy to start this introduction. Also, goats are hilarious.
Moreover, goats are really smart, and they’d probably get damn good grades if they stopped yelling long enough to think about goat school.
Enough about goat grades, though - this guide is meant to help you improve your grades.
A couple facts to put out there before we begin:
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•
For most students, my opinion on grades is that they do not need to be perfect. After you define your goals, you’ll find that your coursework is not a magical Hogwarts train that will take you to them. It’ll help, but alone it’s inadequate. Focus on getting good grades while also gaining skills outside of class, building things, doing extracurriculars, making connections and - yes - making time to have fun. Even if it’s just playing
10 minutes of Goat Simulator (don’t worry, that’s the last goat joke).
The main point of this guide is to help you earn better grades, but the almost-as-important subfocus is to cut down your study time. It’s my aim here to give you tools and tactics that help you perform better in less time. There’s a
10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less)
10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less) by Thomas Frank, Copyright 2014
With the help of coffee and more coffee
This book is free! Have a friend who would find it useful?
They can get their own copy right here.
If you like what you read here, you’ll find tons more study tips, career advice, and other info on becoming an awesome college student at College Info Geek (collegeinfogeek.com).
—————
Thanks to all the students who helped edit the first draft of this book!
- Ransom P.
- Victoria C.
- Clayton B.
- Audrey C.
Cover icons:
- “Coffee” symbol is by Edward Boatman.
- “Book” symbol is by Eugen Belyakoff.
- “Goat” symbol is by Anand Prahlad.
- “Brain” symbol is by anonymous, public domain.
All icons are from thenounproject.com.
2
Introduction
There is a goat icon on the cover of this guide because putting it there made it easy to start this introduction. Also, goats are hilarious.
Moreover, goats are really smart, and they’d probably get damn good grades if they stopped yelling long enough to think about goat school.
Enough about goat grades, though - this guide is meant to help you improve your grades.
A couple facts to put out there before we begin:
•
•
For most students, my opinion on grades is that they do not need to be perfect. After you define your goals, you’ll find that your coursework is not a magical Hogwarts train that will take you to them. It’ll help, but alone it’s inadequate. Focus on getting good grades while also gaining skills outside of class, building things, doing extracurriculars, making connections and - yes - making time to have fun. Even if it’s just playing
10 minutes of Goat Simulator (don’t worry, that’s the last goat joke).
The main point of this guide is to help you earn better grades, but the almost-as-important subfocus is to cut down your study time. It’s my aim here to give you tools and tactics that help you perform better in less time. There’s a