b. Three steps. They read their notes and textbooks, commit them to memory and go for the examination. These students are the ‘C’ and ‘D’ students.
c. Four steps. They read their notes and textbooks, commit them to memory, practise answering various questions and go for the examination. These are the ‘B’ students who will occasionally get an ‘A’.
What I discovered about many super students was that successful learning and guaranteeing that ‘A’ required a total of nine steps. And studying began not from one to three months before the examination, but on the first day of school! That’s right. Learning begins on day one.
SUCCESSFUL STUDYING IS A NINE-STEP
PROCESS THAT BEGINS ON DAY ONE!
Yes! Believe it or not, studying begins on the first
day of the course you are taking and there are
altogether nine steps you must master! Each of
these nine steps is covered in-depth throughout
this book.
Many students think that the first step to studying should be to read their notes or their textbooks. I believe that before you do that, the first thing you must do is to set very clear goals on the results you want to get for the subjects you are studying. How many ‘A’s are you going for?
This is very important because the goals you set will determine how
you study and therefore your results! If you set a goal to score 100% in
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