Ken Bain's Guide to What the Most Successful College Students Do

Marc: Libro súper bien cuidado. En perfectas condiciones. Gracias

Spain on Sep 27, 2020

Antic: Good resource for researchers in education.

Canada on Oct 04, 2016

Brad Jones: Quality of the book is excellent. Thank you.

Canada on Dec 26, 2015

Jack Chakotay: This is an inspiring book designed to motivate the reader into a lifestyle of learning- and not just aiming for exam results. There are some decent tools that if applied to a systematic daily regimen, should help foster retention, and fuel curiosity and self teaching.

I think the "college" label would put the younger reader in secondary school off. These tools would certainly be as beneficial to the brighter secondary school kids I know. Apply this to any approach of learning and they would be much more rounded than slavishly learning by rote.

United Kingdom on May 14, 2013

Reviewser: This genre of book is overcrowded! What is extremely good about this one is how it doesn't necessarily replicate a lot of the books which could be considered similar.
Really this book provides an insight into the processes and ideas on education which effectively impact later life more so than they do student life. It isn't a a book which will teach you all you need to know but it does provide information you might find surprising. I lent this to my sister to read who is currently at Uni and she said some of the principles she really could apply and use.

Probably a great book if you are about to go off to uni or college!

United Kingdom on Apr 15, 2013

C. Groves: I picked up this book in pursuit of straight A's. What I got instead was a chance to completely change the way I view education and learning. The goal of this book is not to teach you how to make the grade (although there is advice for doing that at the end of the book) but to show you a process and viewpoint of education that leads to growth and success in life after school. Although the book is not perfect it did change my life, and perhaps save a doomed to fail college career. Here are some of the main things I liked and disliked about the book.

Liked: (note the length of discussion of each of these topics varies)
-How it encourages learning, growth, self discovery and curiosity over success and jumping through hoops (grades)
-Encourages one to take control of your own education.
-discussion of intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation
-focusing on good questions over correct answers
-explanation and discussion of strategic and surface learners vs deep learning
-the benefits of taking responsibility for outcomes and focusing on the ability to change the future
-why self compassion is more important than self esteem
-discusses attitudes towards failure and...

United States on Oct 24, 2012

kden: I'm a sophomore student of Computer Science. I'm glad and feeling lucky for discovering this recently published book. This book takes an unconventional approach in helping college students like me to success in both learning and grades. Instead of merely providing specific guidance and methods for optimal studying and taking tests, it includes numerous interesting examples about people who've succeeded both in academic terms and life afterwards. It reveals the patterns of how successful individuals developed an unique, insightful, creative and critical mindset, which helped them to achieve their ultimate successes not only in school but in life. This book emphasizes the importance to become a deep learner, someone who learns with motives far beyond the grades. It also emphasizes the importance of general education, as it broadens perspectives of thinking and that it happened in most successful individuals author has investigated. Nevertheless, the two are just examples of the many more valuable emphases in the book. In addition, the last chapter of this book provides useful and specific advice on getting good grades and achieving deep learning simultaneously.

This book is...

United States on Sep 24, 2012