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What Smart Students Know: Maximum Grades. Optimum Learning. Minimum Time.
$17.00
My title of this review says it all. He makes some really good points and helpful suggestions. His twelve step can be helpful, only in the perfect World. Unfortunately, we don't live in the perfect World, as we don't have enough time to apply all of his concepts. It would probably take less time to read the assigned chapters rather than to follow his 12 steps. I do get what he says. He says to weed out the unimportant information and only to concentrate on the useful information. The only advice I will adopt are to pay attention to headings, titles, anything in bold, first and last paragraph of each chapter, questions by the author, graphs, illustrations, summaries and such. I'm only going to focus on what is important to me by skimming, rather than reading every little word. That's the only advice I am able to take from this book. I don't have the time or the energy to be so interractive, as he suggests. Instead what I find useful in studying is finding sample tests I can take on a subject, rather than coming up with my own questions and such. It's easier to study from sample tests and basically, sample test cover the most useful information. I also find his lecture note taking tips useful. In other words, just read the book but only apply the concepts you're comfortable with and use the information that you're able to use into your studying skills.

2009-2010 Student Planner 2045D
$3.60
I liked the layout of this planner as well as the space for weekend activities and the ability to communicate with her teacher. We already communicated via e-mail, but this was also nice for last minute updates...No slips of paper get lost between home and the half a block to school!

Microsoft Word Home and Student 2007
$119.95
Replaced Word 97 with Word 2007 and it was quite a stretch. All I wanted was a word processing program for basic wp--what I really wanted was Word 97 all over again but couldn't find it. The new version is like going back to a familiar forest after 10 years and finding it overgrown and difficult to navigate. A lot of the stuff I used constantly in 97 has been buried with what for me is a lot of useless features--like replacing simple autotext with building blocks. And some other features aren't supported any more, such as opening multiple dox from the desktop. But I persevered, discoved how to use the Quick Access Toolbar to simplify the main toolbar to a usable minimum. I could wish for more backwards compatibility (a phrase that MS probably uses as a curse) with W97 dox, but this is okay, considering it was 10 years ago. Surprisingly usable once you get used to it. A recommendation--if you have PATIENCE!!

JanSport Classic Big Student Backpack, Black
$50.00
It's good to hold my laptop and some books. I like how it has many pockets for my smaller stuff (eg. cellphone, pens, etc.) And the color/design makes it distinct.