E-book Category: Education, Manuals E-book Title: Winners' Guide to SAT Reading Comprehension Book Description: This ebook will help you Identify & rectify your 'Reading Blocks' & Triple your reading speed within a few days. If I were to point out one single skill that strongly correlates with your final SAT Score, it would be 'Reading'.
Ability to read fast not only helps for the RC section of the SAT, but is also invaluable in the whole of the Verbal section.
Moreover, a fast reader can shave off seconds on each Math problem by reading and digesting the information quickly.
But there is more..... being able to read faster will also help you throughout your career. Most of the top professionals have reading speeds that are double the national average.
Good Reading skills will not only help you immensely on ALL sections of the SAT, but throughout your college & your professional career.
So how do you improve your Reading skills?
Well, if you look at hundreds of 'Reading Programmes' available in the market, each one pushing their own 'strategies & techniques', it is easy to get confused.
Is there a book or a programme that helps you improve your Reading Speed, but with reference to the sat exam?
Unfortunately, there is none!!
Well, there was none, till the 'Winners' Guide to SAT Reading' came along.
This is book that contains winning strategies for improving your reading speed, and more importantly, enables you to apply these to the SAT RC section. Some of the unique features of this book are: - Addresses the problem rather than the symptoms. It does not give you dry tips to
improve your performance in RC. It gives you strategies to improve your Reading Speed and then applies these strategies to the RC section. - Contains proven methods that have helped scores of students double/triple their
reading speed WITH Better Comprehension. - A thorough analysis of various RC question types and strategies you can apply to
each of these. - Detailed discussion of which strategies you can apply to come out a Winner on the
SAT RC. - Over 100+ Unique RC questions from varied passages for you to practice your
newfound skills.
Reading is natural to all of us & poor reading is more because of bad reading habits rather than any innate disability.
Using the right techniques and methods, it is possible to get rid of poor reading habits and considerably increase your Reading Speed.
This comprehensive 150+ page book will do just that. It will help you: - Identify the 'blocks' to reading faster.
- Clear these blocks and double/triple your reading speed.
- To apply the same strategies that SAT RC Winners use to get that 99 percentile.
And above all, it will help you become a better and faster reader in a much shorter time than any other course/book/programme.
Over the years that I have taught the SAT Verbal, and from my own SAT & GMAT experience
( I have scored 99 percentile in GMAT Verbal. See my score here), I have compiled this book to
specifically help out students who want to improve their reading skills in general & score big on
the SAT Reading Comprehension section in particular. Here is a look at the Contents of the ebook: - Why Reading is like exercising a muscle
- The Definition of Reading
- Five types of reading
- Scanning type of reading
- Skimming type of reading
- Light type of reading
- Word by word type reading
- 'Reading to study' type of reading
- Are you a Left-Brain or a Right-Brain Reader?
- The Eye and its Movements
- Eye Span
- Peripheral vision
- The roots of slow reading
- Eight Factors that Reduce Reading Rate
- How Winners' overcome these limiting factors
- Overcoming Subvocalization
- Stop talking to yourself when you read
- Chunk four-words
- Overcoming REGRESSIONS
- Overcoming faulty habits
- How do Winners Read?
- Reading in 'Thought Groups': Fast readers do not read every word.
- Ignore words that are unimportant
- Phrase reading
- Take in more words at a time
- Look at groups of words
- How do winners read fast without sacrificing comprehension?
- Fear of losing comprehension: The Role of Speed in the Reading Process
- Basic Conditions for Increased Reading Rate
- Rate Adjustment
- Does faster reading result in lower comprehension?
- The relationship between rate of read and comprehension
- Test of Reading Speed
- Winning techniques/exercises to triple your reading speed
- Visual Reading Techniques
- Visual Configuration
- What is Comprehension Lag?
- How can you Consciously force yourself to read faster
- You already know 90% information of that you will read
- Keep practicing
- Sharper focus
- Subvocalisation & the Thought-Stream
- How did Lee double his speed without feeling the difference?
- Pacing & Scanning
- Techniques
- Pacing
- Pacing Exercise
- Scanning
- In-Depth Reading Techniques
- Establish Purpose
- Survey A book or publication
- Revise Purpose
- Study in Depth
- Evaluation
- Reducing learning time with the SQ3R method
- Key Word Noting
- Taking Notes
- Associative Networks
- Mind Maps
- Mind Maps
- Two vertical lines
- Strips reading
- Read first sentence
- Active reading
- Think for a moment, what you read
- Breathing and reading
- Reading for SAT
- Winning Tips for SAT RC
- What is the most effective reading method for SAT?
- How to deal with Tough RCs
- a) Multiple dimension passages
- b) Close Answers
- C) Satiric/Unclear Tones
- Noticing shifts in Passages
- The top 3 reasons why people get answers wrong:
- Using the 80 -20 rule to your advantage
- Does age influence one's ability to learn to fast read?
- How to Get a hyper focus on the SAT
- Be an active reader
- What is fixations
- Test yourself for how many times you fixate
- Developing effective reading skills for the SAT
- When should you take notes?
- Types of Passages on the SAT
- Question Types & Strategies for tackling them
- Main Idea/Primary Purpose Questions
- Title Questions
- Specific Detail or Target questions
- Inference Type Questions
- Attitude Questions
- Structure Questions
- SAT RC Practice
- Passages
- Answers with Explanations
Why Should you Buy this Guide? Reading is perhaps the most important skill on the SAT.
Most of the commonly available SAT prep books address the symptoms rather than the problem of slow reading, resulting only in incremental improvements in your RC performance.
You simply cannot improve your SAT RC performance without addressing the underlying causes of slow reading and getting rid of 'bad' reading habits.
I have trained scores of smart students, who did well in All sections of the SAT, except the RC. And this is primarily because reading skills take time to develop, and you need to thoroughly understand your reading habits and focus on improvement areas.
Over the years, we have closely observed which techniques/methods result in maximum improvement in reading skills in the minimum time.
These concepts are now included in the 'Winners' Guide to SAT Reading Comprehension'.
This book focuses not only on the reading techniques, but how to apply these techniques to solving the various types of SAT passages and questions.
One of the most important parameter that the admissions committee looks for, is their English score. Your Verbal score doesn't have to be in the nineties, but the closer the better. It has to be high enough to convince them that you deserve that offer letter.
This guide has been especially written from real life experience teaching the nuances of Reading Comprehension to hundreds of students..
This guide was originally prepared exclusively for students who take private coaching from my- sat.
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