10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less)


Active Reading Strategies


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5 Active Reading Strategies
For decades, professors who all belong to the ultra-secret society of Acronym 
Lords (now that I’ve told you about it, they’re coming for you) have been trying 
to push active reading systems that can be neatly packaged into - you guessed it 
- tidy little acronyms.
These systems, like SQ3R (Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review), SQ4R (add 
Reflect), and others contain some useful techniques - but I think trying to rigidly 
follow one every time you read is far too time-consuming. I’m not the only one 
who thinks this; Cal Newport, the founder of the excellent Study Hacks blog, 
wrote:
“I’ve never met a high-scoring student who used a 
system like SQ4R. The reason: they’re too time-
consuming! What these students do instead is 
discover simple, streamlined and devastatingly 
effective heuristics that can be easily adapted to 
specific classes.”
The only acronym-based reading system I recommend is SCAR:

Stop

Complaining

And

Read
So, instead of appeasing the secret acronym society members and 
recommending a cumbersome system, I’m just going to give you 5 active 
reading strategies you can adopt as you wish.
Note: Again, including images of each technique would mess up the formatting 
of the book - but you can see examples in my 
Active Reading video
.
Use the Pseudo-Skimming Technique


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The longer a reading assignments is, the more likely a large portion of its 
paragraphs will be filler - stuff you don’t really need to read. According to Cal 
Newport, filler paragraphs can include:

Background story

Asides

Exceptions (because professional scholars want to be thorough)

Extra details
In many cases, information of these types won’t make up the bulk of what you’ll 
be tested over later - so paragraphs containing those types on information 
should be quickly scanned.
However, a good number of paragraphs in any reading will contain important 

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