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Learning psychologists have developed methods to improve
reading or learning skills for rapid learning or rapid reading. They introduced
a method called Survey Q 3R. Here Survey stands for survey, Q stands for
questioning and 3R stands for reading, reviewing and restating. Before we read
or before we start reading any article or essays or book, we first should
survey the reading material. How to survey the reading material like an essay
or an article or a whole book is a first suitable question. Or how to do rapid
and effective reading is a suitable question of many readers or students or
college and university students. This is the super reading technique. Still
some modification can be done based on the availability of time and purpose of
the reading.
Survey
In the method of Survey Q 3R, survey of an article or an
essay stands for exploring mini topics of the article or essay that consists
of. Survey of a book stands the chapters the particular book consists of. How
to survey the article or essay or the book is also a good step to understand.
Reading first line of each paragraph of the article or essay is the first step
of the survey.
You can also make guess that the article or essay consists
of the some of these points too. If you are surveying a whole book, you can see
the table of contents of the book. You can also anticipate some contents of the
book when you catch any book before you see the table of contents. These steps
are under the process of ‘survey’.
The reading technique varies based on the reading material.
If you are reading a chapter of a economics, you better attack on graphs,
examples , data in tables and illustrations in the survey step. You should
develop the skill of scanning those sections in the chapter and paragraphs
where there are. Are you worried that it's so difficult to scan so many things
while reading. It's not difficult. It's very easy.
Don't get worried. Feel you are smart in doing these things.
This sort of scanning makes your mind receptive, curious, alert, quick and help
acquire many other useful skills of the real readers' as well as college
students' to grasp the information effectively. By the way, what do you mean that
you have learned something? I assume that you have learned if you can express
or explain the understood matters using illustration, graphs and examples. You
can consider the step of scanning under
the Survey section of the Survey Q 3R too.
Questioning
After we complete survey step of the rapid and effective
reading, the questioning (Q) step starts. Before you start reading; in the
questioning (Q) step, start questioning or making questions that the particular
essay or article of the book will try to answer. Your question step will raise
your interest to understand the important message in the article. These
questions are the real stimulants of the rapid and effective reading step.
Questioning makes you ready to start reading.
Reading
Reading is like eating bread, chewing, macerating it with
the saliva, swallowing the food colloid, digesting the food and absorbing the
digested food materials. So; for the huge work of the real ‘reading’, we must
be ready for rapid reading as well as effective reading. In essence, reading is
like digesting food. While reading, I advice not to produce sound. Or in other
words, don’t make lip movements while reading.
While reading, it is assumed that you are memorizing most
important points of each paragraph of the article or essay or the book. The
main points can also be recorded in a sheet of white stationary if you are in
your reading room. But, to solve comprehension questions in the examination,
you won’t get the opportunity to note the important points while reading. Practice
of making points in the mind and logically movement towards the terminal
section of the article or essay or book is also the important requirement. In
the earlier days, you are slow. But; as you read adopting the technique of
rapid and effective reading, you will slowly raise the speed of the reading.
Review
For rapid and effective reading, remember the main points
logically and in the appropriate sequence after the reading. To remember all
main points of the read articles, you must have sequential logic. Otherwise it
is very difficult to memorize all the main points sequentially. You must have
precise logic to link the sequential logic to link the main points. For it, you
have to think and go under the process of imagination. Once you start to create
and establish sequential logic to link the sequential main points with the help
of your imagination, your right brain starts participating for the long term
memory which will help you keep the main points into the long term memory.
Please remember that short term memory remains in left brain
and long term memory remains in the right brain. Since the right brain has 90%
capacity to store information whereas left brain has less than 10% storage
capacity. So, I mentioned the information to make you careful. And I also
insist you practice in this way in the review step of the survey Q 3R.
You can note down all the main points of the articles or
chapters or essays. Repeat the practice of memorizing the main points as many
times as possible in order to memorize them in shorter and shorter time
duration. While memorizing main points, make no lip movements. In other words,
don’t produce sound while memorizing the main points sequentially.
I have illustrated a method of “Strengthening memory” and
“sharpening intelligence” in the website. I advice you go through the pages
too. If you practice applying your real efforts on these practice lessons; one
day, you will acquire extraordinary traits to make your career brighter.
When you start feeling that you remembered all the main
points logically and sequentially, you will start feeling better. The better
feeling will generate confidence. The confidence will help you regenerate
internal energy and will power. The expressed internal energy and will power
will again engender internal talent and make you feel extraordinary. These
expressions will make you smiling and brighter to go ahead.
Some time, very complex points are made in simpler form too.
Don’t feel the important points are very complex. Make the main points as simple
as possible. I want to illustrate the method of making complex points into
simpler main points and a way to memorize the points. For example; for the
agricultural development of a country, there must be marketing facilities,
transportation facilities, good price of the agricultural products, high
yielding technology, supply of necessary inputs, availability of credit, and
irrigation facility. These are the important points we can note after reading a
chapter of economics of agricultural development of any country. But, we can
modify complex points into simpler. “My father planted high yielding potato
taking loan and using good seeds, applying fertilizers, and irrigating and
earned profits selling the products taking them to the market.”
This inverted comma closed single sentence has almost all
the points what I noted earlier. We can see those silent points here. “My
father planted high yielding potato variety (technology) taking loan (credit
from financing institute), using good seeds, applying fertilizers (availability
of seeds, fertilizers, chemicals), and irrigating (irrigation facilities) and
earned profits (good price of the agricultural products) selling the products
taking them (efficient transportation facilities) to the market (availability of
good market).” If you practice applying special efforts, you can still make
simpler than this one I made here. I made this just to explain how difficult
main points are embedded into a simple sentence. This way, you can memorize
many points very easily and with sequential logic. These activities are under
the review step of the rapid and effective learning.
Let me illustrate another example to pack the main points
you extracted reading the chapter. Who doesn’t want to be a millionaire? Who
don’t have the question, “How to become a millionaire?” Who doesn't speak,
"I want to be a millionaire."
This question is exciting question for us. To embed all the main points, I make
a sentence here “I a millionaire from the sale of the bumper harvest of the
capsicum cultivation."
To become a millionaire from the bumper harvest of capsicum,
I must have a piece of land, some money. If money is lacking, I must get loan
easily from a bank. I must sow the seeds of a high yielding hybrid variety of
the capsicum. I must simultaneously use ample fertilizers. Then, I must
irrigate the crop. After the maturity of the crop, I must carry the bumper
harvest to the market and must get good price of my produce.
In the precise sentence; “I became a millionaire (1) from
the sale (2) of the bumper harvest (3) of the capsicum cultivation (4),” main
points are embedded in it. The main points of the marketing facilities (3),
transportation facilities (3), good price (1) of the agricultural products,
high yielding technology (3), supply of necessary inputs (4), availability of
credit (4), and irrigation facility (4) are embedded in the numbered word or
group of words.
It’s okay. We arrived at a moment that we acquired the skill
to pack many important points in a single sentence. Simultaneously we acquired
to extract many points from a single sentence too. Furthermore, we are
practicing to concentrate our mind onto a single sentence. Here we extracted
the main points again and practiced to concentrate our attention to the target.
This way, we acquired an extraordinary trait to focus our attention to a target
passage for comprehension. The terminal fraction of the review also help concentrate attention while reading.
Restate
Express the points orally so as to make it your own good
article. Repeat the practice of the restate using transitional expressions. I
have written a page of transitional expressions. You can write an email to the
owner / author of the website for the password to open the page. I made my own
explanation of the rapid and effective method of reading. I am still doing some
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