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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?

If you like what you read here, you’ll find tons more study tips, career advice, and other info on becoming an awesome

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Introduction

This is a special sample edition of the book, just for the readers of r/GetStudying!

It contains the introduction as well as three chapters of the book that focus on:

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Planning Methods

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Study Tactics

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Writing Great Papers

If you like what you read, you can get the full book (with 7 more chapters)

Hope you enjoy it!

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).

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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 neat little equation I invented below that explains this a little better.

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10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less) The Study Time Equation

What are the factors that actually go into earning awesome grades? In my mind, the best way to look at this is to envision the final goal not as the tangible reward - the grade - but rather as the state of being you want to achieve.

I define this as Desired Preparedness. This applies to any class you’re in - or, to get more granular, to any specific exam/assignment/project.

The grade is simply a result you can use to quantify your desired preparedness. Once you’ve set that goal, there are four factors that will go into achieving it.

1. Class Time

2. Learning Quality

3. Study Time

4. Study Efficiency

Given those factors, here’s the initial form of the equation: Pretty simple, no? Now we just do some algebraic fiddling to solve for Study Time:

Assuming you’re committed to attending all your classes, Class Time is fixed.