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    How to Boost Your IQ and become an A+ Student
    How to Boost Your IQ and become an A+ Student
    How to Boost Your IQ and become an A+ Student
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    How to Boost Your IQ and become an A+ Student

    By Michael Petty

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    This book shows you how to boost your IQ significantly.
    It also shows you how to become an A+ student in school, college or university/
    The author, Dr. Michael Petty, carried out some of the earliest seminal research into IQ in 1980. He is a former professor and currently a social scientist.
    This book is scientific and is completely valid and reliable.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichael Petty
    Release dateFeb 18, 2012
    ISBN9781465921079
    How to Boost Your IQ and become an A+ Student
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    Michael Petty

    Dr. MICHAEL PETTY Ph.D. is an authority on accelerated learning, IQ, Neuro Science and brainwave entrainment. He has a BA from Durham UK, an MA from Calgary and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He was a Canada Council Doctoral Fellow and his 1980 research on change in IQ scores, published in the British Journal Educational Research is still cited in Psychological texts. His latest book is Michael Petty, How to Boost your IQ and Become an A+ Student, https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/134033

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      How to Boost Your IQ and become an A+ Student - Michael Petty

      How to Boost Your IQ and become an A+ Student

      By Dr. Michael Petty

      Copyright 2012 Michael Petty

      Smashwords Edition

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and I purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return toSmashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard workof this author.

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1: Why is Xuan-Trang Ho so perfect?

      Chapter 2: You have a very powerful brain

      Chapter 3. The IQ myth

      Chapter 4: Effective Learning Strategies

      Chapter 5: Brainwave Entrainment

      About the Author

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      Chapter 1: Why is Xuan-Trang Ho so perfect?

      Nicholas Kristof, a columnist in the New York Times, asked in a 2006 column: Why is Xuan-Trang Ho so perfect?

      Trang came to the United States in 1994 as an 11-year-old Vietnamese girl who spoke no English. Trang's parents, having no more than a high school education in Vietnamese, settled in Nebraska and found jobs as manual laborers.

      The youngest of eight children, Trang learned English well enough that when she graduated from high school, she was valedictorian. Now she is a senior at Nebraska Wesleyan with a 3.99 grade point average, a member of the USA Today All-USA College Academic Team and a new Rhodes Scholar.

      Increasingly in America, stellar academic achievement has an Asian face. In 2005, Asian-Americans averaged a combined math-verbal SAT of 1091, compared with 1068 for whites, 982 for American Indians, 922 for Hispanics and 864 for blacks. Forty-four percent of Asian-American students take calculus in high school, compared with 28 percent of all students.

      It is much the same in Australia. The university at which I taught in Sydney had many Asian-Australian students and quite a number of overseas Asian students. In Australia as in the USA Asians graduate from high school with disproportionately high scores on the university matriculation exams.

      One Australian professor complained that Asian immigrants are taking over Australia by outperforming native-born Australians in school! I do not share his racist view that Asian-Australian leadership of Australia would be a bad thing. Surely it would be a good thing if the best educated Australians become the leaders of Australia, whatever the color of their skin and the shape of their eyes?

      Why are Asians so successful in school and university even when, as in the case of Trang, their parents are poor manual workers who spoke little or no English when they arrived in America? Trang seemed, on the face of it, destined to fail in school and, like her parents occupy the lowest rungs of society.

      Kristof asked Trang the obvious question: how did she do so extraordinarily well, against such odds. Trang said I can't speak for all Asian-Americans, but for me and my friends, it was because of the sacrifices that our parents made. ... It's so difficult to see my parents get up at 5 each morning to go to factories to earn $6.30 an hour. I see that there is so much that I can do in America that my parents couldn't.

      Clearly Trang should not have been able to cope with schooling in America. She spoke no English at age eleven and her parents were unskilled workers on a minimum wage, and they spoke no English either. She would, on the face of it, seem to be far, far worse off that a white child from an intact working class family. So how did Trang not only cope with an American school, but also succeed brilliantly, far beyond the expectations of most children from wealthy native English-speaking families?

      Kristof canvasses the idea that Asians are born with higher IQs than other ethnic groups and rightly dismisses that foolish notion. However, he is not aware that Asians who seek to excel in school develop a higher IQ than other students. He concludes that there are ‘two and a half reasons’ for Asian success:

      1. First, as Trang suggests, is the filial piety nurtured by Confucianism for 2,500 years. Asian-American families may not always be warm and fuzzy, but they tend to be intact and focused on their children's getting ahead. In other words Asian families tend to be supportive; they pursue educational goals for their children.

      2. Second Kristof says, Confucianism encourages a reverence for education. In a Confucian culture, it is intuitive that the way to achieve glory and success is by working hard and getting A's.

      2.5 Kristof then advances the ‘half reason’: American kids typically say in polls that the students who succeed in school are the ’brains.’ Asian kids typically say that the A students are those who work hard.

      So one of the reasons that Trang is so successful is that her family supports her and expects her to perform well in school. Secondly the Confucian culture in which she and her parents were raised honors education as the path to success. Thirdly, Kristof’s ‘half reason’ is perhaps the most important reason. Hard work is the key to success in school whether the motivation to work hard comes from Confucianism, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam or Buddhism.

      A majority of native English speaking students in America, Australia, Canada and the UK believe that the 'brains' are those who succeed in school. This reflects

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