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Put these Study Tips in your backpack! How to Be a Great Student
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Hello Socratica Friends! We’re here to help you be a Great Student! Wouldn’t you like to be able to read faster, and understand everything you read? Doesn’t SPEED READING sound like a great idea? It is possible to read faster, but you shouldn’t expect miracles.
In this video, we’ll talk about what it would take to actually read faster. Reading is more than just flashing words in front of your eyes. There are several steps involved, and some of them may be easier to speed up than others. We'll investigate some of the more popular speed reading techniques.
For example, we discuss how you get better with practice at training your eyes to follow a line of text. Your eyes don’t follow each word smoothly, but rather jump across the page (these jumps are called eye saccades). Some methods of speed reading focus on shortening the time spent on each saccade.
Other techniques tell you to minimize the amount of “reading to yourself,” or “subvocalization” that you do, because it takes longer to speak a word than to read it. Is it possible to stop subvocalization? We discuss this idea.
Then there is also the time spent recognizing each word. The better your working vocabulary is, the faster you will be at understanding what each word represents in the context of what you are reading.
Here's a quick speed reading test you can try. How did you do? Let us know in the comments!
freereadingtest.com
We are so thankful for the support of our generous patrons. We are very happy to dedicate this video to them! In particular, we'd like to recognize Tracy Karin Prell, Vishal Shah, Carlos Araujo, and Austin Anderson. With their help, we are working full-time to bring more high-quality educational videos to YouTube, for everyone who wants to learn. If you'd like to join the Socratica Team, visit our Patreon page here:
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Do you want to be a GREAT STUDENT?
We’ve collected all our best Study Tips into a playlist for you:
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Our most popular videos are:
How to Use the Feynman Technique bit.ly/TheFeynmanTechnique
How to Use Flash Cards bit.ly/Flashcards_Studytips
How to Study Physics bit.ly/StudyTipsPhysics
How to Take Great Notes (Cornell Technique) bit.ly/Cornell_Notes
How to Study Programming bit.ly/Learn_Programming
How to Learn a Foreign Language bit.ly/Learn_Lang
How to Use the Pomodoro Technique bit.ly/PomodoroSocratica
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We Recommend the following Books and Study Supplies:
Cornell-notes style paper
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Cornell Notes spiral notebook:
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Tomato Timer (use this for the Pomodoro Technique)
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Moleskine 18 month planner
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How to Read a Book - classic by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren
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Word Power Made Easy
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
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Roget’s Thesaurus
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Pilot G2 Extra Fine Pens
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The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin (Chess Prodigy)
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Great Student: Liliana De Castro
Written and Produced by Kimberly Hatch Harrison
#StudyTips #SpeedReading #Reading
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Put these Study Tips in your backpack! How to Be a Great Student
ebook: amzn.to/2Lh3XSP Paperback: amzn.to/3t5jeH3
or read for free when you sign up for Kindle Unlimited: amzn.to/3atr8TJ
Hello Socratica Friends! We’re here to help you be a Great Student! Wouldn’t you like to be able to read faster, and understand everything you read? Doesn’t SPEED READING sound like a great idea? It is possible to read faster, but you shouldn’t expect miracles.
In this video, we’ll talk about what it would take to actually read faster. Reading is more than just flashing words in front of your eyes. There are several steps involved, and some of them may be easier to speed up than others. We'll investigate some of the more popular speed reading techniques.
For example, we discuss how you get better with practice at training your eyes to follow a line of text. Your eyes don’t follow each word smoothly, but rather jump across the page (these jumps are called eye saccades). Some methods of speed reading focus on shortening the time spent on each saccade.
Other techniques tell you to minimize the amount of “reading to yourself,” or “subvocalization” that you do, because it takes longer to speak a word than to read it. Is it possible to stop subvocalization? We discuss this idea.
Then there is also the time spent recognizing each word. The better your working vocabulary is, the faster you will be at understanding what each word represents in the context of what you are reading.
Here's a quick speed reading test you can try. How did you do? Let us know in the comments!
freereadingtest.com
We are so thankful for the support of our generous patrons. We are very happy to dedicate this video to them! In particular, we'd like to recognize Tracy Karin Prell, Vishal Shah, Carlos Araujo, and Austin Anderson. With their help, we are working full-time to bring more high-quality educational videos to YouTube, for everyone who wants to learn. If you'd like to join the Socratica Team, visit our Patreon page here:
patreon.com/socratica
SUBSCRIBE if you want to be notified of our next video!
bit.ly/SocraticaSubscribe
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
Do you want to be a GREAT STUDENT?
We’ve collected all our best Study Tips into a playlist for you:
bit.ly/StudyTipsPlaylist
Our most popular videos are:
How to Use the Feynman Technique bit.ly/TheFeynmanTechnique
How to Use Flash Cards bit.ly/Flashcards_Studytips
How to Study Physics bit.ly/StudyTipsPhysics
How to Take Great Notes (Cornell Technique) bit.ly/Cornell_Notes
How to Study Programming bit.ly/Learn_Programming
How to Learn a Foreign Language bit.ly/Learn_Lang
How to Use the Pomodoro Technique bit.ly/PomodoroSocratica
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One easy way to support Socratica is to shop using our affiliate links. We’ve partnered with the following companies where you can buy new and used textbooks more affordably. Do a little comparison shopping and pick the best one for you!
Amazon Used Textbooks - Save up to 90%
amzn.to/2pllk4B
eCampus Cheap Textbooks
bit.ly/eCampusCheapTextbooks
RedShelf Digital Textbooks
bit.ly/Red_Shelf
Go Peachy Books
bit.ly/GoPeachyBooks
BiggerBooks.com
bit.ly/BiggerBooks_
Second Sale
bit.ly/Second_Sale
Are you preparing for a standardized test? SAT, GRE, ACT, TOEFL, etc?
Our friends at Magoosh can help.
Visit them here: bit.ly/MagooshTestPrep
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
We Recommend the following Books and Study Supplies:
Cornell-notes style paper
amzn.to/2dC9bUR
Cornell Notes spiral notebook:
amzn.to/2usl3ip
Tomato Timer (use this for the Pomodoro Technique)
amzn.to/2pMQhyA
Moleskine 18 month planner
amzn.to/2vCKhQl
How to Read a Book - classic by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren
amzn.to/2QhAgxF
Word Power Made Easy
amzn.to/2no4W4s
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
amzn.to/2rSHz7O
Roget’s Thesaurus
amzn.to/2EvmFyf
Pilot G2 Extra Fine Pens
amzn.to/2wwFzSZ
The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin (Chess Prodigy)
amzn.to/2r952QB
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
Ways to support our channel:
► Join our Patreon : patreon.com/socratica
► Make a one-time PayPal donation: paypal.me/socratica
► We also accept Bitcoin @ bc1qda47tgfyk67lxa7yqn8y5m02hjcglghsd5c58n
Thank you!
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Connect with us!
Facebook: facebook.com/SocraticaStudios
Instagram: instagram.com/SocraticaStudios
Twitter: twitter.com/Socratica
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Great Student: Liliana De Castro
Written and Produced by Kimberly Hatch Harrison
#StudyTips #SpeedReading #Reading
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