any tips on learning how to read faster?

Question

i hate when it takes me forever to read a single page of text!

Answer 1

Speed reading. What this does is help you eliminate small words and take out the important information. It's a great tool to have and helps out in college.

Answer 2

There are different types of reading - skimming, scanning, in depth etc - the Open University website will have tips..

I used to find some types of text quite laborious too but now I alternate the technique accordingly..

Also as with everything the more you do it the easier and faster it becomes..

Good Q

Answer 3

Try to read the newspaper everyday and spend at least 30 minutes a day.

You will see the difference in a month.

Answer 4

try scanning it, see what u get, go back and read it, and if it works, then do that. hell im one of those that can read a whole page and get to the end and dont remember a thing, but i just re read it

Answer 5

I took a speed reading course at OU.
It was just reading at a faster rate by skipping small words.
Like: a, an, the, or, it, etc.

Answer 6

Try searching the net for "speed reading"

Answer 7

Look for the more imporatnt content, read the sentences around it and them look for the next important content.
Practice and then it will become easy.

Answer 8

Maybe - search keywords - and skim through alot of small repetative words ...etc

Depends on what you guess are - important words and meanings, you need to retain and memorise, obviously ..etc.

Answer 9

study extra many times. additionally, attempt basically searching for the important factors and examining that sentence, or that component of a sentence. usually, the 1st sentence of a paragraph and the final sentence of the object or internet site might desire to be sufficient to get the gist.

Answer 10

Just read down the centre of the page.

You get everything hopelessly wrong - but it's fast!