You superread and dip repeatedly... then if you want to be sure you missed nothing rapid read. By super reading and dipping a chapter a number of times you actually expose your mind to it more often... with each pass you add to what you need to know. When you cannot form anymore questions and you want to be sure you missed nothing rapid read. When superreading your mind really only skips words ...like... is.. to.. and... a... it knows what they mean... it looks for new "information clusters" and knows where they are and what they are because you already PRed the book... The idea is to trust your mind a bit more.
The factor of time isn't as important as the knowledge you want from the book.
I think it was posted elsewhere on the forum by Dana... and going from memory it was something like this.
The average 800 page text book takes the average student roughly 30 hours to fully comprehend via regular reading.
Using the PR System the average student can reduce this to 1/3 or less. I.E. 10 hours or less.
Factors to consider as Iam2 said...how long would it take 'you' using the regular method...
The answer would be; it should only take 1/3 that time or less. And often the comprehension is even better too.
The reason we can't give a specific number or say it would take you x number of hours is because each person is different.
I explained the process of superreading, dipping and mindmaping here. http://www.learningstrategies.com/forum/ubb/Forum8/HTML/002082.html
Basicly you work in 30 minute session. Doing 1 - 3 or more sessions for each section of the book until it 'gels How long you take for mind mapping is up to you it remains a good habit to set time limits and stick to them.
Alex
[This message has been edited by AlexK (edited May 22, 2002).]
