As a student who are working on school career, Knowing how to read textbook would be the most important step for them. Reading textbook more efficiently means a lot to a student, it would help you to save bunch of time and make you have more free time to have fun or work on everything interests you. On the other hand, even you don’t want to have more free time, (maybe you have too much free time to have no way to kill them. if we could trade time, just let us make a deal.) OK, let’s start to dive into our topic today.
Frist, figure out what is the topic and every section name of the chapter, and keep them in your mind. After you keep the topic in your mind, you know what you’re reading, and the author always orginaize them orderly, it means they are connected with each other in some way. So, it is the most important step. I call it ‘what am I doing’.
Secondly, read the summary written by the author. who does know most about the book? Definitely, the answer is the author. Even though he or she is not the best expert in this field, he understand the book best since he wrote it. Thus, reading the summary of a chapter would provide the author’s view towards the book.
Thirdly, find the main features when you look through the chapter, like graph, table, term, any highlighted bold sentences. Have a first impression with them. It would make you happy when you read them again and make you familiar with this contents.
Fourthly, here, we start to read the main content of the chapter. There is an important thing you have to keep in your mind always, focus. Focusing on what you are reading regardless any distraction surrounding you. When you decide to finish a certain amount of pages, just do it, never stop finishing reading before you achieve your goal because you are trying to momerize something, when you are interrupted in the halfway, you have to restarted from very beginning. It is horrible and time-consuming. On the other hand, when you trying to reading, trying to understand every single word since you would gain nothing if you just look through the chapter, and you just know like, ok, It seems like I saw it before but I can’t recall it at all. It proves that the first time reading is meaningless. However, you could choose one section as your goal, you are allowed to have some rewards like a 5 mins break after finishing a small goal. Try to walk around for a while, step to in front of a mirror to see how awesome you look like when you achieve your goal, and tell yourself that you’ve already achieved this goal and that gives yourself encouragement. It is very important since it help you build up your perseverance and happiness.
Fifthly, close the book, trying to recap all the main contents in the chapter from roughly to concisely. First, trying to recall the chapter name to make you understand what is the main topic, after that, the section names, then the definitions in the each sector. Then trying to recall every trivial knowledge of this chapter. A better choice is do this step during your break. Then, open your book and trying to verify your grasp on knowledge, what you missed, what you momerized wrongly, etc.
Last but not least, trying to write everything important that you think of. This step would give you the firmest impression of the knowledge, and then, make sure you have already understand them, if you just know how to apply them, you’d better to figure out how they works, since that would improve you ability of comprehension and extend the period of your memory.
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