Improving Your Reading

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With effort, you can improve your reading dramatically, but remember to be flexible. How you read should depend on the material. Assess the relative importance and difficulty of the assigned readings and adjust your reading style and the time you allot accordingly. Connect one important idea to another by asking yourself: Why am I reading this material? Where does it fit in? When the textbook material is virtually identical to the lecture material, you can save time by concentrating mainly on one or the other. It takes a planned approach to read textbook materials and other assigned readings with good understanding and recall.