On many occasions we have shown you some helpful tips in order to make your study more efficient. We have recommended that you get used to doing summaries y schemes To capture the essence of the matter that you are interested in knowing, we have explained the innumerable benefits that it means that all your study space has conditions of habitability and comfort suitable for facilitate concentration, and we have also dedicated the odd article to review the benefits of knowing underline to be able to develop your synthesis capacity.
But so far we have not affected an aspect that is also one of the causes of school failure: misread. And it It is one thing to read a text and another to be able to extract from it what they want to tell us, understand the meaning of certain words and the context in which they are placed. We are not talking about reading more or less quickly, something that is gained with practice, but to understand.
The trick is not to read aloud or to do it for yourself, we refer specifically to:
- Read by spending time reading on the text itself, without distracting elements. If you think you need to isolate yourself to focus on reading, go to a separate room. You should abstract what you read, not the television, the radio, a conversation or the mobile phone.
- Read each paragraph and make an interpretation, in our own way, from what we have read, writing down the words or expressions that we do not understand to look for them later and achieve understand the subject in its entirety.
- Get into each part of the reading. You must know in which page or part of the book a certain concept is located and pay attention to its titles and sections. This aspect is very important, since there are students who memorize everything according to the order in which it is found, by heart and without any logic, and if by chance they are asked something outside of that hierarchy, they get lost.
If after your reading time you manage to remember what you have read then you will know that you are doing it right. Meanwhile practice, little by little you will go gaining dexterity and with a simple visual you will know extract what interests you from the text. Do not be afraid to consult with your tutor to recommend the most appropriate guidelines for your reading level, do your part and do your best, and do not worry, because to study you also learn.