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If you are struggling to learn a new subject, it might be because of your learning style. I cover this in detail in my study guide in detail, but one of our readers offers this great inspirational story that might help you.
Hi Marc,
I was helping Fred with his upcoming “electricity” exam last evening.
Fred is kinesthetic.. He loves stories- people’s experiences and all things sports.
He excels at and enjoys history, social studies as he lives the experiences of people from hundreds of years ago.
As you can guess… Fred was less than enthusiastic about electricity et al…
I helped him by making up a story about how RESISTANCE is just a bunch of tough guys in an electrical circuit, conductance is like a conductor of a bus bringing the volts to their “potential” and making a difference… and because it can be a long bus ride.. it’s important to keep the “INTENSITY” of the current high… etc…
He had already memorized the formulas and done the leg work.
He just needed to add meaning- a story – to what electricity is about.
It was pretty cool to see his physiology change right before my eyes. Ironically, with every new idea. I could see eyes LIGHT-UP – sorry couldn’t resist 🙂
He was excited, passionate and spent the next half hour telling me all about his plans for finishing this school year and what he will do differently next year !
Anyway, all this reminded me of an episode of WKRP, which I showed Fred, and thought you could use on your blog…
Have a Great Day !
Andrew
Today’s post is a YouTube video that answers the most popular questions people ask me about my study book.
Get Better Grades With The Least Amount Of Effort
I am not a big proponent of being manipulative with teachers, but the reality of the academic system is that you do need to deal with them. Tell me your story or ask me a question here by posting a comment and I will help you deal with the worst teacher(s) you have. Please do NOT use their real names -this is not about retaliation. I want to help you deal with the problem – be specific about the issue your having. Make sure you focus on TEACHING and STUDYING ISSUES – not personality conflicts.
I’m here to help you get better grades with less effort!
I am staging a one-time-only event in Geelong Victoria on Tuesday 1 July from 5 to 7 PM, called Unleash The Genius Within… Click on the hyperlink for more details. Make sure you register for it if you want to get the best grades with the least amount of effort. This is a unique opportunity to meet with me live, in person. The 2-hour event will be followed by an optional 1-hour tutorial where you can ask me any question you want about speed learning and speed reading…
Ideally you buy my study book and speed reading video program BEFORE the event so you can then ask me questions AFTER trying them out rather than asking me questions that are basic and already addressed in the book and video…
Today’s ‘question of the day’ comes from Joy in the U.K. Actually, it’s two questions.
Many Thanks Dr Marc,
This seems like a positive start for me, but I’ve got an important question.
I am currently in my penultimate year in the university, studying in the UK. I was just wondering if these study skills to get better grades are skills for only students in The USA or also relates to the students everywhere else.
Study Tips For Better Grades
My strategies have been used by thousands of students to improve their grades in 29 different countries and the book has been translated into 3 languages. Students from grade school, middle school, high school, college, university and post-graduate programs have used the study tips and techniques successfully.
My study tips and tools work for science subjects, social science courses, engineering, law as well as medicine.
Also I’ve got another problem which I find difficult to solve is the interest to study, I think I have the interest as I promise myself to study everyday but as soon as I pick up my books to study I lose interest immediately again it takes me so much time to understand a few lines of words while studying and I can hardly remember them too which is to say I think they do not register. It has been a great concern to me and I have been too shy to speak to anybody. I know and have this confidence in me that makes me think I am intelligent and can make it but as soon as I encounter a difficult task I become weak and just give up. I am afraid I will fail and have to repeat a class if I don’t find a solution quick.
I need your help please and hope to hear from you soon.
Regards
Joy
How To Study Subjects You Don’t Like
There are two issues at play here – the first is you THINK you are interested in the subject matter, but the reality is you’re not. If you were, you’d have NO TROUBLE STARTING. I’ll prove it to you.
If you are a stamp collector and you start to read about the new issue of the new Olympic Stamps for the London Games – you have NO PROBLEM with focus, attention or retention do you?
That’s because you’re INTERESTED.
The challenge we all have as students is that EVERY ACADEMIC PROGRAM has courses we don’t like. I remember hating Thermodynamics in Engineering School, Chemistry in College and Multi-Variate Statistics in Business School (Ph.D.).
But y’know what?
YOU DON’T HAVE A CHOICE. It’s part of the curriculum and you have to pass the course to get the diploma and the degree.
I suggest you do THAT homework FIRST – get it out of the way – DON’T DO WHAT YOU LIKE FIRST. That is a recipe for disastrous grades – it will increase your chance of failure BECAUSE you’ll spend MORE time on what you like and not enough time on what you don’t like…
Don’t do it.
Of course that’s easier said than done. BUT if you start studying what you don’t like, you’ll feel RELIEF and a LOT LESS STRESS. We all have to study stuff we don’t like – we NEED TO. We need to be aware of things because that’s what education is all about. There is NOTHING you can do about it -EXCEPT to get it out of the way FIRST and QUICKLY.
If you want to get through the boring subjects quickly, get your hands on my Speed Reading Video Program so that you spend LESS time on the subjects you hate. Speed Reading will FORCE you to focus and concentrate and get it out of the way in a fraction of the time. Imagine spend HALF the time on chemistry, physics or geography… How cool would that be?!?
Student Self Confidence and Self Esteem
That being said, the SECOND issue you have is with confidence and self-esteem. That is a lot harder to deal with. If you are keen to deal with this, I have a colleague who can help you get a breakthrough. Her name is Yvonne Mcintosh and she has ‘breakthrough sessions‘ for $97 that she can do over the phone. She’s based in Australia, but you can definitely do it through Skype for FREE or via a long distance calling card. Click on the hyperlink if you want to overcome this self-esteem issue quickly.
If you don’t choose to have the breakthrough session, all you need to do is top putting pressure on yourself and focus on the fact that whenever you LEARN something NEW, it’s by definition something YOU DON’T KNOW.
It takes time and effort to learn something NEW.
One of the strategies I teach is to start at the beginning – for example for Statistics, I bought the Cartoon Guide To Statistics to get the basics in a FUN WAY. I bought this as a Graduate School Student to help me with my MBA and Ph.D. courses.
I’m serious. I did the same for other subjects as well.
The “For Dummies” series of books is a GREAT PLACE TO START whenever you’re intimidated with a subject.
Fundamentally – we all put ourselves under pressure – when you put the study tips, techniques and strategies in my book, Get The Best Grades With The Least Amount Of Effort in practice, you’ll gain self-assurance and confidence within 2-3 weeks.
This will be especially true if you learn to speed read!
Good luck!
Just in case you missed the recent update of my ebook “Get The Best Grades With The Least Amount Of Effort” product page, my ebook has been translated into French and Romanian and soon in Chinese and Polish… This excerpt proves these study tips and strategies are working for thousands of students from 29 countries!
If you haven’t bought it yet, click on the Buy It Now Icon —->
Get Better Grades in English, French, Romanian and soon Chinese and Polish!
Listen to this short message from Emil… Sometimes it’s another person’s breakthrough that can spark your own as well as motivate you to take action!
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I don’t get As but, before I got the book I just got Ds 😥
But after buying your I got a C+ on a math test!
The book has changed me!
Thanks Marc!!!
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This book is so simple and easy to understand that it WILL START you on the path to The Best Grades With The Least Amount Of Effort!
I am including another testimonial from Andrés who lives in beautiful Costa Rica because I think he adds a very personal perspective to the process of Getting Better Grades With The Least Amount Of Effort that will inspire and motivate you.
My grades have gone up and are still going up with very little extra effort. The thing is that I caught it right on the edge and believed I was doing the right thing from the beginning. I have no doubt that doing what I did at the very end of the semester could help me if I apply it at the beginning of the semester. It’s exactly what you say in your book just that you have to practice like you had the test that same week.. for a couple of weeks and don’t stress by trying to do it all at once.
Once you have a system you can use it in the exam and since you have practiced many times you can check with your teacher to remove any mistakes before the exam. That’s where I lost points in my exam, that I could have prevented.
From extremely low marks on my university test grades I have gotten back on track with some incredible success. Why is it that once you actually think that you are doing something productive and it is extremely beneficial it ends up being not so great after all?
It’s hard to get out of old habits and I will still be giving it all my effort. This has been a life-changing experience that takes me to a new breath of life above my own frustration. There are unlimited possibilities but limited time to find them. I believe it is not until you’re put to test that a door opens for you. The answer is that you live within your world of thoughts and experiences. Nobody perceives it like you do or thinks what you think.
Sincerely,
Andrés Acosta Egea
Costa Rica
Onward and upward!
Dr Marc Dussault
P.S.
If you have your own testimonial or QUESTIONS you would like to ask me, please post it as a comment to this blog and I’ll get to it as soon as I can.
Click here to see my first French YouTube video advertising the French version of “Get Better Grades With The Least Amount Of Effort” ebook.
“Faites l’envie de vos amis surdoués
en obtenant de meilleures notes qu’eux
et en travaillant deux fois moins!”
Onward and upward!
Dr Marc Dussault
P.S.
If you haven’t seen the English version of this YouTube video, click here to Speed Read 600 Words Per Minute!
Speed reading is a MUST-HAVE skill for any serious student. It’s the difference between being a ‘bookworm’ and having a fun student lifestyle. Imagine reading 6 times faster than your classmates – what would that do to your grades?
When I was studying for my first Ph.D., I was reading 1,800 words/minute which meant that I was 6 times faster than my classmates. On a Friday night, from 7 to 10 PM I would read for 3 hours, and then watch a movie and go to bed. My classmates had to spend ALL DAY Saturday and ALL DAY SUNDAY to read what I had read on Friday night.
That meant I had the WHOLE WEEKEND to do whatever I wanted – additional study, or in my case, I was DOUBLING the SALES and TRIPLING my PROFITS while I was opening up a second branch office!
Click here to learn to speed read within ONE HOUR.
Today’s post is courtesy of Jennifer F. who asked the following two questions via e-mail.
How long does the system take to complete? Can I share it to other computers in my home once I get it?
Thank you. Jennifer F.
Question #1: How long does the system take to complete?
“Get the BEST GRADES With The LEAST Amount Of EFFORT” is a SYSTEM that starts with an e-book that takes most people less than 1 hour to read. The tips, techniques and tools revealed are so easy to implement that a fifth grader could put them into practice IMMEDIATELY.
The SYSTEM is structured for each person to OPTIMISE their own study patterns which means every person will find his/her own solutions EFFORTLESSLY, and each one will be DIFFERENT. What Jennifer does to increase her grades will NOT work for Janet or Jack.
That is the beauty of the SYSTEM – you will find what works BEST FOR YOU, even as quickly as while you read the book.
But to answer Jennifer’s excellent question – the SYSTEM takes only minutes of attention to PLAN, TRACK and MONITOR what you’re currently doing. Within the first week of using just a handful of the strategies, you’ll start to see IMMEDIATE results.
Many people get results BEFORE they even finish reading the book BECAUSE they do the exercises.
In fact, when you buy the book, you’ll have access to BONUS materials and techniques for SPEED LEARNING and SPEED READING that will further enhance your results.
If you have a test or exam coming up and you apply just 2 or 3 strategies in the book, you’ll see INSTANT results on that exam. You’ll be able to REMEMBER more and UNDERSTAND more than you did before you started the SYSTEM.
That being said, this is a SYSTEM that you can fine tune over and over again. Most people want to get BETTER grades and are willing to spend MORE TIME to get them, and THEN start to reduce their time spent studying. That totally makes sense to me – GET THE RESULTS NOW and then reduce the cost/investment to get the SAME and better rewards AFTER you’ve figured out what works and what doesn’t.
So the answer to Jennifer’s first question is that it takes about an hour to read the e-book and then only minutes to apply the strategies SYSTEMATICALLY one at a time – as your courses and semester develops.
If you are a good note taker, you might want to focus on EXAMS, QUIZZES and TESTS.
If you you’re good at EXAMS, you might want to REDUCE the time it takes to MEMORISE and LEARN stuff the first time…
Whatever it is that you need to focus on, it takes MINUTES for you to implement the strategies and they will start to save you time within the first week – GUARANTEED.
Jennifer’s second question is also very good—
Question #2: Can I share it to other computers in my home once I get it?
The “Get the BEST GRADES With The LEAST Amount Of EFFORT” System STARTS with an e-book that is a PDF file that is sent to you IMMEDIATELY when you place your order and you can open and read on any computer and share with family members. Because this is my intellectual property, it’s not to be given to others freely. That is stealing and when you do that, the Universe has a way of punishing that kind of behaviour… I talk about harnessing the unlimited power of the universe in the book and in subsequent elements of the SYSTEM.
The SYSTEM is comprised of BONUSES and additional components that you will receive access to automatically.
Each one is designed to ensure that you KEEP improving your grades. Some are focused on SPEED LEARNING while others on SPEED READING.
These are all delivered electronically and can be accessed on any computer regardless if you’re at home, school or work.
There you go, two GREAT QUESTIONS.
Onward and upward!
Marc
P.S.
“Get the BEST GRADES With The LEAST Amount Of EFFORT” starts with buying the e-Book. NOTHING will change unless you take action.
This SYSTEM is GUARANTEED to work – No one who has read the book and applied the strategies has failed – NO ONE.
All you need to do is trust the process, invest this small amount and see what happens. I personally GUARANTEE you can BET BETTER GRADES plus I know you can do it with less effort.
Without diverting into a speed reading discussion, imagine if you could read 2 or 3 times faster – which I teach in one of the SYSTEM COMPONENTS…
I am sure you’d agree it’s LESS effort to read 3 hours of material in 1 hour…
I can teach you to do that, but won’t unless you buy the first component of my SYSTEM – “Get the BEST GRADES With The LEAST Amount Of EFFORT” It’s about the price of a Music CD with a FULL MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE.
If it’s not worth it to you to get better grades THIS SEMESTER, then don’t worry about it. Keep doing what you’re doing and don’t worry about the fact that you could go to bed earlier, be less stressed and get better looking dates as your grades improve AND you have more time to socialise, have fun and party WITHOUT compromising your grades.
Post a comment and I’ll make some suggestions…
Consider it a ‘private tutoring lesson’…
A lesson that everyone gets to learn from.
Try to be as specific as you can – saying that you have trouble taking exams is not specific, saying that you’re not good at essay exams is better, saying that you run out of time writing essay exams is even better.
Go on, give me a challenge…
I’m here to help you get better grades with the least amount of effort!
Marc
This is going to be fun…
If you want to get better grades with the least amount of effort… It’s all explained in my book of that name “Get the BEST grades with the LEAST amount of effort“, go there now and check it out.
It’s what this blog is all about – but how does it all really happen?
I mean c’mon, you must have doubts…
Studying LESS, but getting BETTER grades —
Can that be for real?
NOT unless you know the KEY strategies that most people keep to themselves as their secret weapons.
I’ll give you a SIMPLE example that you need to watch the YouTube video below to fully grasp…
How to Improve Your Grades INSTANTLY
If you need to, watch this video a few times so you REALLY understand the underlying message.
When I teach you to uncover what you don’t know you know, I will Unleash the Genius that’s within you – INSTANTLY.
I can’t afford the time and effort to teach you NEW things – that takes too long, it’s too hard and frankly neither you nor I have the patience and discipline to work on it for that long.
PLUS I know there is are SHORT CUTS.
SHORT CUTS without cutting corners.
Simple and easy SHORT CUTS that are revealed in my book that you must get your hands on.
In this blog, I will assume you’ve read the basics in my book and that you’re looking for that EXTRA TURBO CHARGE, that extra kick in the pants to go from a B+ to an A or Distinction to a HIGH Distinction (HD)…
The basics are CRITICAL.
Go and buy my book now and get the process started – after all, if your grades aren’t worth this small amount – stop wasting your time and accept the grades you are getting now.
There is an EASIER, FASTER way to get BETTER grades – I’ve SYSTEMISED it. AND it’s GUARANTEED to produce the results. You have NOTHING to lose and everything to gain.
The best jobs, the best looking girls/boys who’ll get attracted to you like a magnet BECAUSE they know you’re smart.
Onward and upward!
Marc
P.S.
I know you’re committed to increasing your GPA. I know that because you’re here, reading this.
To help you, you have to help yourself. Do the exercises I suggest and watch what happens.
This first exercise takes 5 minutes and 6 seconds… Is that too much to ask to learn an explosively powerful technique to improve your study skills?
I think not.
But then again I’m biased. You’ve seen the results I’ve produced for myself and others…
I constantly focus on what I know but don’t know I know…
I ask myself the ‘Million Dollar Question” —
“I know I don’t know, but if I did know, what am I doing that is working that I don’t know I’m doing RIGHT?”
Ask yourself this question and start the dialogue with me on this blog by posting your comments so I can HELP YOU GET BETTER GRADES WITH THE LEAST AMOUNT OF EFFORT.
