Thoug this message is for Alex and KWLee, but anyone is welcomed to answer and give me guidance.

Dear Alex and KW Lee,

Under your guidance and keep doing PR and activation, I have following observations.

1) Since my lecture notes for Maths are highly technical, esp the proofs and derivations. I can read through it very quickly. Then I usually read it quite quickly in the first time and then ask myself qu,'What are the tactics and strategies to construct this proof?' Then I read through the proof for another 2-3 times and amazingly things get gel very quickly.

Qu for Alex and KWLee: I have thousands of proofs in Algebra and Analysis and even Prob and Stat. I also practise old exam papers to improve ability to apply theorems and models. Hence, I lack of time. Besides, even I understand a proof very well , I may forget it the next week. I think I need to do several reviews. So I wonder how I can activate the whole textbook in every activation pass instead of doing 1 chapter a time, as time is running out!

2) Though my 'dipping' is quite slow, I still find PR useful. Since I can sense which page of the book contains my required information while I have never seen it conciously before, this is a great evidence to prove PR works.

qu for Alex and KWLee: PR works as my intuition has proven my unconcious mind was working, but I hope my comprehension speed will increase rather than just being able to spot the required information. I mean this is ok if it's just a book for 'reading', but not for maths which requires 'analytical reading' and 'applicaitons'.

The last qu) When I PR a book, I do PR steps including prepare, entering als and so on for each individual book for the first time only. (I seldom do preview). Since I have several textbooks on each subject and I photoread them everyday before I start my activation. It is time consuming to prepare and entering als for every book as my purpose is the same, which is to understand what the author is going to present to me, to understand the theorems and proofs so that I can apply them to solve my exam qu. So I just prepare and enter als 1 time and then PR all the books one by one without doing anymore preparation and als, is it ok and would it confuse my unconcious mind? But I PR books on the same sub each time so the info would be quite similar.

P.S. Alex, haven't seen you online for ages. How are you doing?

[This message has been edited by Michael S (edited May 06, 2004).]