Reddit reviews The Evelyn Wood Seven-Day Speed Reading and Learning Program

Google Evelyn Wood. Top subvocal ~250-400 wpm, then you are getting into more linear reading. It takes a good bit of practice, but 1100 is doable by just about anyone and 2-3k is not uncommon.

That is the book I used back in the day.
http://www.amazon.com/Evelyn-Seven-Day-Reading-Learning-Program/dp/1566194024

http://www.amazon.com/Evelyn-Seven-Day-Reading-Learning-Program/dp/1566194024

I read this book last week and it has honestly helped me a ton staying with reading. Even if you don't want to speed read at 'super sonic speeds' like the book describes, it gives you a ton of tips to how to stay focused.

For example, I underline with my finger as I read. It is confusing the first few pages you do it, but once you fall into the habit of doing it, you stay much more focused for a longer period of time.

I found this book on speed reading in the bargain bin at Barnes & Noble a while back, and it solved the problem for me.

Basically, active reading > passive reading. It's not hard to do, improves your concentration, and speeds up your rate and comprehension, even if you don't get to the point where you can read a page a second.

This book saved my life in college.

Not only does it teach you how to read faster and retain more, it helps you learn how to take notes and study as well.

Unfortunately, it takes more than seven days. Liars.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say yes, a VAST majority of speed reading and accelerated learning courses are based on the general principles put forth by Evelyn Wood. It will take some practice and like any worthwhile acquired skill, there will hills and valleys and plateaus of reading speed but it will kick in. Throw in mind-mapping and eventually you'll start creating images in your head as you head almost as if you were mind-mapping but not drawing it out.

I add in mind-mapping for a few reasons:

• You have to process the information in a different way. Reading is an auditory process while drawing something out and making pictures is much more of a creative, visual process.
  
• You have to review the information - the act of creating a mind-map is essentially reviewing the information
  
• They can be interesting to create associations (anything with sex or personal interests are great)
  
• When I need to recall information, I can mentally "see" where that 'thing' was on the mind-map that I drew
  
  Amazon link for Evelyn Wood - don't bother with the reviews

>I am in high school. In europe high school grades matter a lot. And I know it. I am pretty smart I guess but I don't know how to study.
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>I need to study to achieve better grades. B's and C's arent really enough. And I dont usually study because I don't know how to study.
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>What study method should I use to study guys?
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>I've tried reading and taking notes (aka copying from the textbook and altering the word order sometimes),doing exercises isn't working. I want to understand the material and get better grades and learn but idk what to do
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>What should I do?

I learned note taking from a book called The Evelyn Woods Speed Reading and Learning Program . It absolutely changed everything about how I approached every class. I feel I retain more, and when I choose to I can crank up to about 700wpm when I'm reading and still retain most of the information. (Real speed readers who actually train for it can read 1400+ wpm. JFK was known for reading 1-3 novels a day.)