How To ABSORB TEXTBOOKS Like A Sponge

Let's talk about how to remember the information you read in the textbook. I covered this at the end of last week's class, but I want to go over it again pretty quickly and it's a lot easier than you think now, the way most people normally try it. To read the textbook, they start on the first page of the chapter when they read the last page of the chapter and that is their focus. They read a textbook the same way they read a novel. Bad idea, it doesn't stay in your head, so I. I'm going to show you some things that you can do to be able to read any type of textbook or any type of manual, especially if you are preparing for an exam.

This will change your life when you understand this approach. The first thing you should do is simply turn each page. What you're going to do is just take the beginning of the chapter and flip the page from check to check and just look to see what's there. On each page you will not read anything, you will only look at the images. You will see how the pages look. It will give you an idea of ​​how long the chapter is. How much do your words cost compared to images? What will be graphics? Does something catch your attention?

That's the first thing you're going to do. Okay, now you go back to the beginning of the chapter. I'm sorry. I'm going to start again. You will not do it. You will go to the beginning of the chapter. You will go to the end of the chapter. You will begin the end of the chapter. And you will see at the end of the chapter if they gave you any kind of test. In many

textbooks

, not all, but in most

textbooks

there will be some type of test at the end of each chapter or at the end of each section.

Can someone tell me why they think it would be a good idea to read? the quiz questions before reading the chapters they don't search they tell the answer you know where to look we know what to look for what you are discovering is what the author of this chapter thought was so important that he was supposed to have gotten from the information in the chapter, This is what you're supposed to get from the chapter, so now when you're reading, you're reading when you focused your attention, this is what I'm looking for, now you're going to go back to the beginning of the chapter and you're going to read the bold font. , you are not going to read all the sentences, you are not going to read all the information in the entire chapter, you are only going to read the bold, who can tell me what is the information contained in bold so that once you see things they want you to see the things they put in bold for a reason these are the titles these are the subtitles these are the theme? headings, that's how they broke down the information within that chapter;

In other words, they'll break it down for you, so now that you understand how this all fits together, you're going to go over it one more time before you read the chapter and you're going to read the first and the last sentence starting the first and the last sentence in each paragraph you're going to to be the first and last sentence you need paragraph the first sentence of a paragraph is the introduction it is a quick overview if it is well written and if it is written by a good author, the first sentence of the paragraph gives you an indication of what it is about the rest of the paragraph and usually the last sentence of the grid helps you summarize it right now and I want to make this emphasize this at this point you're not reading this to understand it you're reading this to expound it you're not going to understand this yet why because you haven't been able to connect the dots but now you will have a map of all the dots.

Now what you have is a preview of the upcoming attractions. Now your brain is set up. This is what you will get. Now you read the chapter and take notes. Let me tell you if you follow this formula, you will only need to go through the chapter like this once. Now I know what you're thinking, yes, even you, what you're thinking is that this is how I don't work well compared to what exactly it is, it's a lot of work. Compared to just reading it and putting your book away and going back to your video game or your TV show, it's not a lot of work compared to cramming for a test and hoping to pray that it stays in your head and you're going to stay up all night trying to cram it in. this information in your head because now what you have done is you have it as a systemic approach remember the old expression that I talked about weeks ago repetition is the mother of learning repetition is the mother of learning correct repetition is the mother of learning so what are we doing here?

You are giving yourself multiple repetitions. You're getting a brief overview of what everything looks like. You are discovering what the authors thought. the most important thing to get, so now that you have your radar on it's called reticular activation system, particular activation system, a very fancy word for your internal radar, you buy a new car and suddenly you see blue cars everywhere, you know you are happy. wear brown shoes that day and you realize how many people are wearing brown shoes that day, that is, your consciousness has increased, it is called the reticular activation system and this is what you want to activate before you turn around, read the chapter the awareness has now increased bold font now you will discover what they thought was so important that they needed to put it in bold font these are all your headlines and now the first and last sentence of each paragraph of each paragraph, not just the page of the paragraph you will provide a quick section-by-section overview.

Yes, an image is slower than just reading it once, but it is a thousand times more effective. You can try to perfect it.