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How The Elite 5% Ace Exams

When you take an important exam – do you read your test questions and text material three times, or are you happy to complete it once?

The answer for 95% of us is we are lucky to read the exam once.

Two medical doctors came to us about the problem they were having
passing their medical boards to practice in the U.S. They were old friends
who grew up in Iran, practiced medicine there for about 15 years, and
decided to emigrate to the U.S. to join their family.

After two failures – they panicked and sought help.

They explained that both understood English and had graduated from
medical schools in the U.S. It was not the answers to medical questions
that cause the problem, but not having time to complete the last one-third
of the exam.

The Strategy

Both doctors spent the entire weekend with us learning speed reading
strategies. By the end of day-1, both physicians had doubled their reading
speed, without any loss of comprehension.

After they completed the second day’s six hours, both were reading three-times faster than their original starting speed, and their comprehension had improved about 10%. It is irrelevant that they doubled their memory.

The Test

Speed readers take a test differently than the other 95%, you might want to
compare their approach to your own.

Skimming – the first bite at the apple

Skimming is the fastest form of reading both the questions and the text.
It is an overview searching for the Topical Sentences – the core ideas of the text, and discovering the locations of the answers to the questions.

If we have a general idea of which sections of the text contain the answers, we will find the specific answers on our next perusal because we have two more bites at
the apple.

The skimming strategy contains two elements – reading each sentence in what
we call Single-Chunking/Diagonal: indenting a few words both left-and-right, and focusing on the 80% of the middle, and secondly, moving our eyes Diagonally from
the end of one-sentence, to the beginning of the succeeding sentence.

It is easier to physically skim the sentences on a page, moving both lineally
and vertically, than it is to explain how – using words.

Where are your eyes focusing?

We strongly recommend you use a pen to act as a pacer and underline
(without the pointer marking the page), the sentences, as you move quickly
down the pages.

Your eyes pay no attention to the underlining pen, but focus on the center of the
words of the sentences. You move your eyes (and head), left-to-right across the
first sentences, and right-to-left (toward the beginning), of the following sentence).

We call it single-chunking/diagonal because you are visually grouping 80% of each sentence in one single eye-fixation.
Compare this to the average college graduate who stops and mentally hears in his/her mind each-and-every-word in the sentence.

If there is an average of ten words in a sentence – non-speed readers will make
eight-to-ten eye-fixation pauses. Chunking is choosing to see words in groups,
sections and phrases.

Skimming is flying across and down the sentences at up to 650 words per minute.
Put that into prospective by realizing the average college graduate reads at about
200 words per minute, with a 60% recall.

When you have finished skimming (your first reading), you have grasped the key ideas and some important details contained in the text. You have a good idea of the location in the text of many of the answers to the exam questions you are focused on.

You even have time to jot down a few notes about what you finished skimming.

Scanning

This second reading is slower than skimming, but is similar in strategy.
We call it Double-Chunking/Diagonal, because you are grouping the words
of each sentence into two-separate clauses.

If there is an average of ten words in a sentence, you physically divide the
sentence into two chunks – of five-words each.

Remember, you always use your pen as a pacer by underlining the sentence,
and move left-to-right across the sentence, and return to the succeeding
sentence, moving right-to-left.

This is your second view of both the questions and the text, and you will
find that much of the material seems very familiar to you. You job this time
is to jot down more of the answers, and check off where other answers are
located in the material.

Screening

Your third reading is the slowest of all, and is known as Triple-Chunking/Diagonal.
Keep using your pen as a pacer to underlining the sentences you read, and keep
your eyes centered on the words of each paragraph.

Triple-Chunking/Diagonal means you are dividing (sectioning), each sentence
into three-phrases, as you move horizontally and vertically down the page.

Now, reading is easy because the material is so familiar, and finding the answers
after your third reading of the questions is a snap. You can almost go immediately
to the location in the text where the answers are found.

Remember, screening is seeing each sentence as three separate clauses or sections,
and moving diagonally from the last chunk of each sentence, right-to-left to the
beginning of the next sentence. You continue this strategy down the paragraphs.

Endwords

What have you accomplished? You have read with a purpose and strong concentration the questions and text of the exam – three-times.

It has taken you the same amount of time to speed read the test three-times,
while non-speed readers are still trying to complete and answer the exam -
once.

Do you have to be an academic genius to conclude that skimming-scanning-
screening the questions and text three-times, is a far better strategy than reading
it only once?

Over one million graduates of speed reading have used this system to Ace their
exams, courses and degrees. It works for them; it will absolutely work to improve
your scores and self-confidence.

The secret of Skimming-Scanning-Screening is getting in the flow (your zone),
and expect and know you are in control of the exam. You will be reading
a minimum of three-times faster than your peers, with better comprehension and
long-term memory. You will do so well with this strategy, if will feel unfair.
Do it anyway, you deserve to succeed.

By the way, those two Iranian doctors did in fact ace their medical boards, and are
presently practicing in New York City.

See ya,

copyright © 2006

H. Bernard Wechsler
www.speedlearning.org
hbw@speedlearning.org

Author of #1 book on Speed Learning published by Barron’s Educational, partner of Evelyn Wood, creator of speed reading, graduating 2 million, including the White House staffs of four
U.S. Presidents.

My husband, my eight-year-old son, and I were having lunch one day and when there was a lull in the conversation, my son looked up at us and, completely out of the blue says, “Do people get mad because they can’t see their foreheads?” We both stopped eating and gave him a blank look.

I said, “What?”

My husband said, “Paul, do you get mad because you can’t see your forehead?”

Paul said, “No. It was just something I was thinking about,” and he went on eating his lunch like this was a normal, everyday conversation.

What I love about this story is it shows how much creativity a child has. Who ever would have thought about trying to look at their foreheads? Kids can say the darndest things, but I’m telling you that those who continue to think creatively are going to be the most successful. And those of us who support them are going to be right beside them.

We make it a point to encourage our kids to think creatively as much as possible. My husband is an engineer and an inventor, so he works with them to develop the right side of their brain. I am intuitive and a writer, so I work with them to develop the left side of their brain. Hopefully, our kids will become fluent in using both sides of their brain as they grow older.

Our kids are eight- and ten-years-old. Here are a few examples of what we do to work with their brain development (as well as their personal development):

My husband will ask them to calculate how old they are in seconds (minutes, hours, days, etc). The three of them walk through the process together and come up with an answer in about 15 minutes.

He’ll ask them, “Where and how do you think this product is made?” That product could be anything from a can of soda to a household product to a toy. It also creates some great discussion on how it can be improved.

At night, I will read to them from the English version of the “Tao Te Ching” (Eastern philosophy, spiritual) and then we will discuss it. For instance, we discussed this line: “The Master (of the Tao) observes the world but trusts his inner vision.” They understood it more than I thought they would.

I teach the children to meditate. It has been very helpful in helping them to find peace when they need it, but also to find answers to questions that are hard to answer.

Since we do this every day, these are just a few exercises we have our children do. Not only are we working on skill development, but we are also spending time together having meaningful conversation. (We also spend lots of time having silly conversation.) In the meantime, we are still trying to figure out how many people get mad because they can’t see their foreheads.