How to Improve Your Reading Efficiency

Concentration on reading can be highly achieved if we have goal and interest on what we are doing or reading. Without concentration, there will be nothing in memory. Our mind can be easily distracted due to stress, poor physical conditions, and surroundings. However, we can achieve performance in reading by applying some of the techniques described below:

Things You'll Need

• concentration
• good food
• good rest

Instructions

1. The first and foremost thing is we should have a purpose of reading book. If we don't have any purpose on what we are doing, we will end up being uninterested in things that we do and we won't be able to learn from reading.

2. Try to combine your ideas with the ideas you get from book. This will generate more interest on what you are studying and help to improve long-term memory.

3. It is very helpful to use pacer (your finger or anything to point to the line that you are reading) while reading. It will prevent you from getting distracted easily.

4. If we don't have enough time for reading, find the important words from books, pages and, paragraphs. For example, read all bold and italics words.

5. Mostly, important information is in the first paragraph or in first line. So try to read first paragraph and first line of every paragraph. Do not avoid to read summary and conclusion

6. Highlight or circle the words or line which you think is important to remember for long time.