10 Tips For Faster Reading
- Read Only the First Sentence of the Paragraph: Often used to convey the paragraph' subject. In doing so you may miss details, especially in literature books.
- Skip to the Last Sentence of the Paragraph: It often wraps up the thought expressed and provides a connection to the next paragraph.
- Read Phrases: After skimming first and last sentences and deciding to read a paragraph, move your eyes quickly over each line and look for phrases and key words. Your mind can fill in the words in between.
- Ignore the Little Words: Ignore small words like it, to, a, an, and, be…
- Look for Key Point: if you are aware of the keywords in the subject you're studying. Focus your time on the material around those key points.
- Mark Key Thoughts in the Margins: Makes reviewing easier.
- Use All the Tools Provided: Lists, bullets and sidebars normally contain key information.
- Take Notes for Practice Tests: Write important information as questions alongside their page numbers so you can check your answers if necessary. These will serve as practice test.
- Read With Good PostureI: Good posture helps you stay awake and read longer. If reading puts you to sleep read sitting up.
- Practice: Try reading quickly when you are not pressured with a deadline. Over time you will get faster.
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Tip 3: Read Phrases
After skimming first and last sentences and deciding to read a paragraph, move your eyes quickly over each line and look for phrases and key words.
Your mind will automatically fill in the words in between.
Tips for Reading Faster
- Always have books for pleasure. If you're not interested in what you're reading you ultimately won't read at all.
- It's okay not to finish reading your books and switch them. Remember the more books you read, the more fluency you'll have, and the gr...
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- As soon as you notice your mind drifting, stop and consider your needs.
- Develop a key/system to note the following in the text: key ideas/major points, unfamiliar words/unclear information, key words and phrases, important information, and connections.
- Summarize the main poin...
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