{"product_id":"2940016208947","title":"How to Make Better Grades","description":"Just when American society needs it most, Phil Robbins has reintroduced\u003cbr\u003eHow to Make Better Grades as an e-book featuring the\u003cbr\u003eQuestion System that he developed at Drake University to solve\u003cbr\u003esome of our most pressing education problems. These include high\u003cbr\u003eschool graduates failing college placement exams in reading, writing\u003cbr\u003eand math resulting in them being assigned to expensive remedial\u003cbr\u003ecourses for which they get no credit. Others enroll but struggle\u003cbr\u003eacademically and finally drop out leaving huge student loan debts\u003cbr\u003efor themselves and their parents.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Question System is a specific procedure that involves turning\u003cbr\u003eall of the information in a textbook or other source material into a\u003cbr\u003eseries of questions to which the student learns the answers and\u003cbr\u003ereviews them. The key is that it is relatively easy to learn specific\u003cbr\u003eanswers to specific questions compared to trying to remember\u003cbr\u003eprinted text, written notes, highlighted or underlined excerpts, or\u003cbr\u003ewritten summaries. The Question System also is comprehensive and\u003cbr\u003edetailed. And the student always knows what he has not learned or\u003cbr\u003ehas forgotten, so the student does not waste time and effort\u003cbr\u003erelearning or overlearning what he already knows.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Question System solves the problem of learning and retaining\u003cbr\u003econtent, but reading and writing skills are also important in making\u003cbr\u003egrades and success after graduation. This book addresses these two\u003cbr\u003eskills in separate chapters. The one on writing is solely unique with\u003cbr\u003ehyperlinks to two lists: one of transitional expressions used by bestselling\u003cbr\u003eauthors and the other list of over 220 sentence beginnings\u003cbr\u003eand expressions used by renowned academic writers—college\u003cbr\u003epresidents, faculty experts, and academic journalists. Otherwise,\u003cbr\u003ethese linguistic patterns can only be picked up by years of\u003cbr\u003eassociation with the people who possess them—if ever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe last chapter “Looking to the Future” addresses some of the\u003cbr\u003eubiquitous problems facing American education, both financial and\u003cbr\u003eeducational. Although they affect the student, they can only be\u003cbr\u003esolved by the people who make management decisions inside and\u003cbr\u003eoutside the education establishment. In many cases it is not a matter\u003cbr\u003eof money but of doing things differently.","brand":"PAR Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47074438381808,"sku":"2940016208947","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016208947_p0.jpg?v=1763630599","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016208947","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}