What can you offer/suggest to those whos reading comprehension isn’t as great, or “receptive” as some other smarter students?

Don’t highlight the text. Instead, use a method that forces you to organize the information. For example, for psychology, you might, while reading a chapter, keep a few lists: definitions, theories, techniques, and record information under these three categories. This is just a sample, but the key is to take notes in a format that organizes the information in the way you need to know it for later tests. This is different than just highlighting the text and later trying to organize and understand it right before the test.

1. What can you offer/suggest to those whos reading comprehension isn’t as great, or “receptive” as some other smarter students? Re-read the text? Because currently I am a psychology major where all my classes assign a lot of reading, and sometimes I can’t always highlight the “RIGHT” information like my friends can. It’s a tad depressing.

2. Second, do you recommend retyping highlighted readings into notes onto the computer into Question, evidence, answer format? Or would re-reading the highlighted/marked text be enough? Thanks!

Andy

Do you recommend flash cards as the best way to memorize definitions of terms?

Yes.

Do you recommend flash cards as the best way to memorize definitions of terms? (Religion course, all terms are in the book, but its not a textbook. The professor warned against looking up the terms because their definitions are specific to the context in the selected book.)

Thanks!

1. I dot or hash at the start of the sentence (rather than the margin). I found this helped avoid having to search for the point on lines with many sentences. Also lets me mark inside sentences, near key phrases.

2. As I go along, I write a four word blurb in the margin that sums up the paragraph. This helps me focus, minimize ‘clarifying’ dots and hashes, and easily find the key points that I want to record in detail.