Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ PhotoReading, Memory Optimizer Stating purpose before activation

hi! I am eager to learn how to PR. I decided to read a 540page book on kidney transplantation. This is my A priority. And I decided to Use 5 day plan

my purpose is to "increase my knowlege on kidney transplantation so that I can deal with problems of my patients better. Another purpose is that to gain inspiration andf find topics to conduct studies."
well can I state two purposes at one time

on day 2; I picked about 30 keywords and I can pick another 30 more if I was permitted because the topic and its subtopics was so wide that only chapter headings and section headings supply more triggerwords than I can handle.

Should I pick 80 trigger words?

Then when playing with text just asking one or two questions per section ( just converting headings to questions) took about 30 minutes...

is it normal ?

and finally I felt obliged to restate my purpose for "finding the answers and noticing main points" before activation.

Now as u can easily guess it is impossible to cover this kind of book from cover-to-cover in 30 minutes ( or is it?) )

well so I decided to activate chapter by chapter reserving each chapter about 10-15 minutes (each chapter is 30 pages or so)

well is it ok or should I modify my approach?

such as asking less on postview and adding questions while superreading and dipping on the go...

I am open to any other opinions and suggestion because I have to read alot of this type of books in a short time of 6 months.

thanks already for your answers and contributions

LoL

If you're keen to learn PhotoReading learn on a book that is not a textbook first. Stay away from using for studies until you know how to do it.

More trigger words. No, because you preview for a maximum of 8 minutes never more for any book.

Also for textbooks treat each chapter as a book in itself. Even then you only preview the whole book once and no more than 8 minutes.

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Then when playing with text just asking one or two questions per section ( just converting headings to questions) took about 30 minutes...

is it normal ?

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Nope, You only need one question to get started and most people get one in less than 3 minutes if they have an appropriate purpose for the book.

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"finding the answers and noticing main points"

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If that was your purpose I fail to see how that is a purpose.

Activation is done in layers.

I suggest you learn first with another non-fiction book that you are curious about and apply the 5 day test approach. Once you've done 3 or 4 you'll see what PhotoReading and activation is about and will be able to apply it to books for studying.

Alex