SKIM OVER SOME TOPICS HOW TO
SKIM OVER SOME TOPICS FREE

SKIM OVER SOME TOPICS HOW TO

Read my article on how to learn from video to find out more. Sidenote: This process is very important in other types of content too, like video. If you find you don’t understand something important, make sure to reread it before moving on. This way you also ensure that you’ve comprehended all important parts. You should also skim after reading a text, or a section, as a way to review the information. By skimming ahead, you will greatly increase your comprehension during the actual reading, and thus will make your learning much more effective. This is very important, as it allows you to get the main idea of the text and to grasp the important concepts throughout. Probably the best use of skimming is to preview (or pre-read) the material. 3) Skim before reading anything (and after) Use skimming to identify these unnecessary sections beforehand, saving yourself a substantial amount of valuable time.

SKIM OVER SOME TOPICS FREE

Also, feel free to skip examples if you understand the concept of if you don’t need to be persuaded on the topic. Feel free (I give you permission) to skip a section if you know it, if you find it boring, or if it is unnecessary to your learning goal. Let me say this clearly: Just because someone wrote something, it does not mean you have to read it. If there are many such parts in an article, then I read it fully, as it probably deserves my attention. Therefore, I use skimming to identify the core points of the article, and then I read only parts that I am really interested in, or that contain new information to me. It is completely inefficient to read the same things again and again. Personally, I consistently skim through articles (especially large ones) on topics I know a lot about. Sidenote: If you want to learn how to speed read, check out the SuperLearner course by Jonathan Levi (Disclaimer: This is an affiliate link) When to use skimming 1) Topics you know a lot about In fact, skimming is a technique heavily based on the concept of the 80/20 rule. In order to skim successfully and effectively, the speed must be fast, the comprehension relatively low, but you need to feel like you grasp the concepts included in the skimmed material. If you feel like you’ve comprehended the content, you probably are still reading too much of the material. It is impossible to beat actually reading the text fully. What you need to keep in mind, though, is that by just skimming through a text, your comprehension will be lower.

It can also help with the overall comprehension of a subject, as it is often used together with your actual studying (more on that in a second). That will then allow you to reduce the time necessary to go through the material. Like everything else, skimming is a skill, and you can actually get better at it. It works best with non-fiction (or factual) material, as this type of content is the one that usually has a better layout and ‘formatting’ for you to extract information from. Skimming is a form of rapid reading (or speed reading), and it is about looking through a text quickly to get the general idea (the gist). This is why I utilize a technique called skimming, that allows me to go through these articles faster and read only as necessary. But I don’t really want to skip them as well, as they’re packed with tons of useful information, that can really make a difference. Which is exactly the problem!Įxactly! Noone has time to read all those interesting but huge articles. But don’t get me wrong, a lot of these posts are plainly awesome.

There are many 8000-word monster pieces out there, a size I don’t even come close to most of the time. Every time I feel like my articles are long, I take a deep breath and refrain from slapping myself.

Skim over some topics