How To Speed Read And Remember Everything ?

As a reader, have you wondered that how to speed read and remember everything ?

There are some ways to improve your reading speed. By using visual placer, and by using Peripheral Vision on highest efficiency, you can increase your reading speed easily. There are some other techniques as well. And when you increase your reading speed, there are also some ways to help you to remember most of the text you read. Most of new or unexperienced speed readers may complain about not being able to remember the text or not being able to focus, but it is important to remember that speed reading is the long term success.

With only basic techniques, you can increase your reading speed with extremely easily, but once you increase your reading speed, your reading comprehension won’t be easily increased. Increasing your reading comprehension isn’t hard as much as you think, but it takes time to increase reading comprehension. Your reading comprehension will determine how much can you remember what you read on the book or reading material.

Why does increasing reading comprehension matters to remember what you read ?

It extremely matters, because once you increase your reading comprehension, you are going to be able to remember most of the information that you read.

If you don’t have proper reading comprehension, you won’t be able to remember most of text you read. So you need to build good reading comprehension to remember the material that you read.

Some readers may not remember what they read on short time, but if you keep pushing yourself to understand the texts, in the long term, understanding all paragraphs or texts will be much easy for yourself.But it is important not to force yourself while reading,  because sometimes we may not understand what we read. For example when you are stressed out, it is normal to not being able to understand what you read. As normal reader that’s totally okay. When you try to give your best performance while reading, it is enough to remember most of the text on the book.

It is important to mention not stressed out during reading. Most of readers or unexperienced readers may stressed out while reading. To keep our memory and to remember the entire book with highest efficiency, we have to keep our reading comprehension on top-level. And if we stress out or if we have low emotional state while reading, this will cause us to have low reading comprehension. And we have low reading comprehension, we are going to not be able to remember what we read.

Does Speed Reading cause low reading comprehension and low level of remembering ?

The answer is no, speak reading doesn’t cause low reading compression, and low level of remembering. In fact, low reading speed can cause you to have low reading comprehension and low level of remembering. When we compare to speak reading and normal reading, there are a lot of differences between them. Normal reading is the Traditional School System reading. Unfortunately, in traditional school system, we don’t learn effective reading techniques. Normal reading is a reading that’s equal with reading word by word. Because of that reason, most of normal readers won’t be able to read more than 300 words per minute, not all of them but most of them.

This is the main reason that why most of readers have low reading comprehension and low level of remembering. Most of the normal readers face this problem that is because they use lack of their brain ability while reading. And because of that reason their brains fulfill this gap by the distractions. Because of distractions, most of normal readers have low reading comprehension and because of low reading comprehension, they have low level of remembering. 

When we look at the speed reading, speed reading helps readers to have high level of reading comprehension and high level of remembering. When the individual increases his or her reading speed, the reader will be able to focus the reading material much more. Once the readers will be able to focus the reading material much more, there will be high reading comprehension and high level of remembering. Please don’t forget that high level of remembering on reading depends on your reading comprehension, focus&attention ability while reading, and your reading speed. There are some other factors as well to remember what you read or to strengthen your memory ability. 

How to remember what you read ? 6 effective ways to remember what you read.

1- Examining The Book Chapters

Book chapters are the best way to remember what you read on the entire book. Most of the books includes chapters on their beginning. This chapter’s identify what you are going to read on the entire book. Before beginning to read book, it is important to check and examine the book chapters. Because once the reader examine the book chapters, the reader will be able to know what he or she is going to read. And once the reader knows what is going to be read into book, the reader will be able to understand the book chapters and the reader will be able to remember the book after some period of time.

2- Note Taking

Note taking is one of the most important skills on reading. Because everybody that should have the habit of note taking while reading. When we read a new book, there are a lot of unnecessary information within book that aren’t related with the topic of the book. But there are also some important informations within book.  These important information can help us to remember what exactly we read within book. And these important informations that we took as a note can help us to benefit from the book on highest efficiency.

3- Chapter Takeaways

Most of the books don’t have chapter takeaways but some of the books have chapter takeaways. Chapter takeaways are the important notes or main stories of the chapter at the end of each chapter of the book.

 For example; 

Let’s assume that the book you read has a chapter takeaways. And let’s assume that the book has 12 chapter. When you finish to read any chapter, there will be some important notes or important stories about the chapter you read. At the end of each chapter in the book, there will be generally two or three pages that are for the specific chapter takeaways. Chapter takeaways are extremely important to remember entire book because once you understand the chapter takeaways and once you will be able to remember to chapter takeaways of the book you read, you are going to be able to remember the entire book.

4- Emotional State&Stress Level

An individual’s emotional state and stress level are extremely important to remember entire book during reading. If an individual has more emotional state and high level of stress, there will be low level of reading comprehension. This low level of reading comprehension will cause to have low level of remembering the book an individual reads.

5- Using Information on The Book

Most of the readers don’t use the information they learn on the books they read. This is not a good situation for effective reading. Because in the long term if you don’t use the information, it is likely that you won’t be able to remember the information or book. If you use the information that you learned on the book in your life, there will be high chance that you are going to be able to remember the book or the entire conclusion of the book on the long term.

6- The Topic You Like To Read

There are a lot of different kind of topics or areas for the books. But it is important to choose the book to read which specific area you are interested in. Because once you do that, it is likely that you are going to be able to remember the book you read after some time. But if you choose a book that is in the area that you aren’t interested in or you just dislike the area, there will be high chance that you are not going to remember the book after you read it.