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E-book Title: Tricks of the Grade Action Program
Author: Joe Martin
Book Description: Imagine if you were a student graduating from high school with a 2.2 GPA and low standardized (ACT/SAT) test scores. Now imagine being told you were a good kid, but you weren't really "college" material, so maybe you should consider "other" options.
In addition, imagine growing up in a tough inner city ghetto, as a child of a teenage mother (with no high school education), and no father in the household. What would you say the odds would be of you "getting into" college? What would you say the odds would be of you "succeeding in" college if you were fortunate enough to be accepted? Would it be safe to assume that the odds probably wouldn't be in your favor?
Well, this was the situation Joe Martin faced as a graduating senior growing up in the inner city ghetto of Miami, Florida. In addition to the scenario just described, no one in Joe's family had ever gone to college (let alone graduate); he barely made it out of high school himself (and most of his friends didn't); he watched six of his friends die violently before he reached the age of 16; and more than a dozen of his friends were incarcerated for various crimes.
However based on one negative comment from a Navy recruiter who told Joe that his SAT scores were so low that no one would even let him drive by a college, Joe decided to prove the doubters wrong (including the ones who told him to consider other options after high school). Not only did Joe go on to graduate from college, he excelled, achieving the following:
- graduating in only 3½ years.
- graduating at the top of his class in his major (with honors).
- voted "Student of the Year" among nearly 10,000 students (by his professors).
- selected "Who's Who Among American College Students."
- landing a job after graduation paying him in the top 10% of entry level employees in his major.
- and he became the youngest tenured-earning professor ever hired in the state of Florida at the age of 24.
Joe said that the most important lesson he learned from all this was, "It doesn't matter where you start in life, what counts is where YOU DECIDE to finish."
So the real question is what happened? What did he do to cause such a dramatic turnaround?
How did Joe go from a 2.2 high school GPA to 3.8 college GPA?
How did he go from the middle of the class in high school to the top of his class in college?
How did he go from one of many students in high school to "Student of the Year" at his university?
Simple...with a system he developed as a student (and perfected as a professor) called, the "Tricks of the Grade."
As a result of his "Tricks of the Grade" system, Joe discovered how to:
- Position himself for higher grades on the first day of class (without sitting up front) (Tricks #3, 5).
- Master the best kept secret to academic success (Trick #1).
- Get better grades by getting others to study for him (legally) (Trick #9).
- Make the college system work for him instead of against him (Trick #7).
- Bend the rules in his favor without breaking them (Tricks #4, 10).
- Avoid the most fatal mistakes that 95% of students make (unconsciously)
(Trick #6).
- Get his professors to give him better grades than he deserved (ethically) (Tricks #5, 6, 8).
- Get "inside information" from his professors (Trick #5).A
- Ace boring courses and tame tough professors (Trick #7).
- Stay motivated in spite of boring classes and boring professors (Tricks #1, 2).
Having spoken and presented his "Tricks of the Grade" program to more than 110,000 college freshmen on 450 college campuses across the country, as well as to thousands of high school students, Professor Martin finally brings his award-winning program directly into the homes of anyone and everyone who wants to succeed in college. Tricks of the Grade is an eye opening, power-packed program on the realities of college (as it relates to academic achievement). Giving students "inside secrets" that other professors won't dare talk about, Tricks of the Grade will literally shock you (and your student) with its honesty, boldness, and directness.
And Tricks of the Grade is anything but traditional. Students DO NOT learn study techniques, memorization gimmicks, speed reading strategies, note taking skills, or test stress relievers...
...although all these skills are important, if these strategies were so effective, the national college graduation rate wouldn't be a dismal 53% (according to American College Testing) and 33% among minority students (according to Blacks in Higher Education). In other words, Tricks of the Grade offers an alternative to the traditional strategies for academic success.
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Reviewed by on 2008-05-16
My Rate 5
read the book and applied all the tricks, 12 classes, 9 A's and 3 B's
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