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A Harvard professor once gave a group of 1,500 top-ranked college freshman a reading test (though he didn’t tell them it was one) by asking them to read a 30-page chapter of a history book which they would be quizzed on after 20 minutes of reading time. He told them that in the quiz, they would have to write a short essay about what they read and to identify the important details in the chapter. After 20 minutes, the students took the quiz, and while in general everyone did fairly well on a set of multiple-choice questions about specific facts mentioned in the chapter, only 15 out of the 1,500 – that’s only one percent of the entire group of students – were able to describe the overall theme of the chapter in their essay. Can you guess why these few students managed to complete this task? It’s because they focused on the keywords: they read the section marked “Summary,” they reviewed the call-out notes in the margins, and they scanned through the entire text looking at the headings and highlighted text. What they didn’t do was start at the first sentence and begin reading word-for-word through the text. Students who did that had two problems: first, they weren’t able to complete the chapter; and second, they weren’t able to form an overall idea of the chapter as a whole.
The lesson to learn from this study is that keywords are the key to increasing your reading speed. Get into the habit of starting out at what some people call “the 30,000-foot view” of a text. Scan the headings, look at any text in boxes (this is often the most important point in a paragraph), read the introduction and summary, and go over any review sections at the end. Always keep in mind the reason you’re reading the text, and the questions you want answered by the text. After you have finished the high-level scan of the material, ask yourself if your questions have been answered. If they have, you’re done! If not, the scanning process will have identified the best places to look for those answers in the text, and you’ll avoid having to go through the whole thing.