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Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Acing High School and College

Straight talk and tips from top students to help make academic excellence a lifestyle.

Getting a passing grade is one thing--cramming to memorize facts, knowing what's on the test, finishing a paper just before the deadline--but being a top student is something else entirely. So what makes the difference between a good student and a top student?

Being a top student is a lifestyle, not just an A on your transcript. The Secrets of Top Students: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Acing High School and College offers advice from lifelong top student, Stefanie Weisman, to help you learn the keys to studying smart, staying motivated, and making academic excellence a part of your life.

Tips from 45 Top Students

Learn strategies on making the grade with first-hand advice from valedictorians, Rhodes scholars, Fulbright scholars, Intel Science Fair finalists, a National Spelling bee champion, and more!

Lifestyle Tips and Techniques

Discover tips and mantras that will keep you on the road to academic success.

Helpful Exercises

Practice makes perfect. Put what you've learned to the test with easy exercises on taking notes, staying motivated, and more.

Secrets of Top Students

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Gary Gruber

Ohio

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The Most Effective Way to Learn the Most Important Vocabulary Words for the SAT, ACT, GRE, and More!

The ultimate guide to improving your vocabulary and all standardized test scores with comprehensive definition reviews and breakdowns, practical language strategies and examples, fifty practice tests and explanations, and much more! Every college-bound student wants the best test scores possible. Fortunately, that just happens to be Dr. Gary Gruber’s life’s work. For over thirty years, his Gruber Method has taught millions of students to expand their vocabulary and language skills and to improve their scores (for example, increasing SAT scores by as much as 600 points) through adaptive strategies for thinking about test problems as categories, rather than rote memorization of individual answers. Gruber’s Word Master for Standardized Tests is the most thorough vocabulary-improvement resource available today. In addition to including more tools and lists than the competition, the guide includes a wide range of useful information to help students hone and sharpen their vocabulary and language skills, such as: The most important words used on all standardized tests Prefixes and roots that denote the same meaning or feeling Commonly confused words The 291 most frequent test words 50 vocabulary tests with answers Prefixes and Roots that decode more that 200,000 words on tests The Gruber Breakthrough Word Strategies The Gruber 2300 Vocabulary Word Review List So read Gruber’s Word Master for Standardized Tests, study its lessons, and watch your test scores increase and your future possibilities expand.

Gruber's Word Master for Standardized Tests

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Social Studies

The new GED test series begins on January 1, 2012, and Peterson's is ready to help GED test takers score high. GED Basics provides detailed subject reviews for all sections of the GED: Writing, Social Studies, Science, Reading, and Mathematics. The exercises, guided practice, and assessment-tracking tools help students determine where they need to focus extra study attention; the book then guides them through a manageable study plan--quickly, easily, and effectively. Two full-length practice exams and detailed answer explanations for the GED core subject area assessments, as well as expert advice and test-taking tips for conquering questions in every GED subject area, make this guide a must-have tool for complete GED preparation.

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Stefanie Weisman

Secrets of Top Students

Gary Gruber

Gruber's Word Master for Standardized Tests

Jill Schwartz (Editor); Peterson's Guides Staff

GED Basics 2011