A s a student, you read a lot of material day in and day out. Text books, reference books, notes, newspapers, magazines, reports, charts—the list goes on and on!
Since you spend a lot of time and energy reading, wouldn’t it be great if you could find a more effective way to get through all that text? The good news is, it’s possible to turn yourself into a “power reader,” but first you need to acquire a skill called skimming.
Skimming is a method in speed reading that allows the reader to capture the gist from a written text.
On top of helping you to understand the general idea of an article or book without having to read all the words, skimming saves you time as you can get through a text three to four times faster than usual.