This book focuses on developing effective learning techniques to help students excel in school and throughout their lives. Unlike traditional study skills books, this one emphasizes how people learn effectively by involving them in the active process of mastering their thinking, self-management, and academic skills and their personal initiative and persistence.

The authors outline getting ready to learn through building habits for success, self-awareness, goal setting, time and money management, learning preferences, critical and creative thinking, reading and studying skills, memory, listening, taking notes, test preparation, test taking, succeeding on group projects, and lifelong learning.

For individuals interested in effective learning techniques, especially first generation or academically underprepared students who need strong study skills emphasis.