Effective and Efficient Reading Strategies

1. Effective reading is similar with skimming, scanning and extensive reading (read rapid and actively). It aims to increase understanding.
2. SQ3R method
- Survey: choose the book topic, title, read the book summary.
- Question: make a question about the story.
- Read: read actively, make a note to the important or difficult part or the story.
- Review: review the chapter until overall outline, look the note.
- Revise: understanding and solve the difficult part and repeat the revise. Learning is about repetition process.
3. Stress
Handling stress: learning to relax, keeping fit body, share the problem to someone.
Useful ways of looking at stress
- Problems are normal part in our life
- Try to avoid stressful situation, take a rest, listening to the music, go to the park, eat, makes a joke with our friends.
Suggestion how to relax
Sit on a comfortable chair, lie on the floor support by pillow on the head, breath deeply but slowly, says “relax” to your self.
4. Efficient reading is necessary for successful learning. The key to efficient use of study time is planning.


5. Study Time
- Everyday: to avoid the homework heaps
- Holiday: make a revision although in holiday, it aims to avoid forget ness.
- Consistency: study at the same time everyday to settle down to study quickly and don’t waste the time.
Minimum time spent for study is about 2,5 hours everyday, 5 times per week.

6. Exam techniques
- Before exam: relax, review notes and prepares the exam equipment
- In the exam: work out time schedule, answer the easiest question first.
- Near the end of exam: make sure that all question is answered, check the answers.

7. Memory
- Memorize best by doing homework, writing out the important point, have the test, repeat point and do extra questions.
- influences to the better memory: play soft music, repeat point over and over again, work in regular time, try to be positive, try to relate what you need to remember.
- Influences to the Worst memory: try to remember too much at one time, study too late at the night, study in the morning before test, study while watch TV or sleepy.
- Helpful hints for memory: make rhyming poems, remember key word, take note, get someone to test you, check previous test, use the WORK-TEST-REST technique.