speed reading and comprehension techniques
speed reading….How does it work?
I understand that the goal is to read faster, and I guess, visually.
Similar to how you watch a movie or tv show, and how your eyes and mind absorb information at a very fast rate, just applying that to reading, is what I would think it is.
But how does one go about doing so?
I love to read. I don’t really have time to do it sometimes, or I just can’t concentrate, but nonetheless I love the read books. REAL books for that matter, not that kindle thing.
How much time do I need to devote myself a day to increasing my speed and comprehension? What techniques should I use? Is there a good website that could get me started?
I find this topic interesting, and know it will benefit me in the future.
Thank you for any help.
I’m a student and I read slow and don’t understand well in the past too. It affected my study quite a lot. Since reading occupies quite a lot of my time every day, I’ve decided to find some way to improve my reading skills. Finally, I followed some speed reading course and it works very well. Now I do much better in my study and it helps a lot when I have casual reading too.
So I suggest anyone, who want to improve reading skills, to look for some speed reading course to learn with. It is the formal way to improve reading. You must practice with some tools provided in course, or it could be quite difficult to pick up those skills. From my experience, I’ve used 1 or 2 hours every day and it takes around month’s time to see significant improvement.
I can recommend the course that I’ve used for your reference too. I chose it at that time because it has quite a lot of good user feedback, and it is affordable. And it covers reading speed, reading comprehension, and memorization skills. There is also a website which tells how to get the best out of the course, and it guides me to choose the online version of the course. I put the links here for you to check them yourself.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Freview%2F0977476006%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref%255F%3Dpd%255Fbbs%255Fsr%255F1%255Fcm%255Fcr%255Facr%255Fimg%26showViewpoints%3D1&tag=moreinfo-px-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957
http://speedreaderxreview.com/
Hope it helps
Speed Reading
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