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Old 01-19-2009, 10:19 AM   #6
Hack&Lube
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Originally Posted by nickerjones View Post
In graduate school , there is so much reading that you have to pick tricks to reading... Why read the whole book , when you can just read parts.... The trick i learned is to read the introduction about 4 times to get the jist of whats going on.... then read the 1st and last paragraphs of the chapter.. then read the 1st and last sentence of every paragraph... Once you get it down you can fly through books in no time flat....
Also try to get up to a reading speed of about 30 seconds a page. That way you can easily estimate how many minutes you need to finish reading something. IE: A 60 page chapter will take you half an hour.
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