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Originally posted by Michael S:
Dear KW,
Can you share more experience on your super read and dip? Indeed i wonder how wide can you read clearly when you superread.
I see the whole page whilst superreading. Both pages, in fact, most of the time. Personally, I don't do scroll down the page. I simply open the page and dip according to where I sense the answer is. I pick up visual clues from subheadings, bold and italicised text, concluding paragraphs and so on. I can flip by several pages without dipping if I sense the material to be irrelevant to me on that particular activation layer.
Of course, that's just me. You'll need to develop your own style of finding the appropriate place to dip at a pace which is comfortable for you.
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Originally posted by Michael S:
During superread, we are supposed to be able to see the whole row clearly, which is to be able to read every word out. For me, I gaze at the centre part of a row and try to expand my vision to see the words. However, I just 'notice' the existence of words on the far left and right side but I don't really know what the words are.
Trust your mind to tell you if there's something on the page you need to read. As you superread, you might find words or phrases jump out at you from the page. That's when you dip. If you want, you can move your gaze in a different pattern across the page to satisfy your conscious mind that you've got everything "in your gaze". I assure you that it's infinitely more important to have a clear purpose, be looking to ask or answer a question relevant to the purpose and watching for inner cues. As long as you maintain a soft gaze, you're fine.
In short: Don't focus on one...word...at...a...time. 
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Originally posted by Michael S:
However, the questions I ask are quite naive. I can say I don't know what I have to know for exam preparation.
If you don't know the answer to your question and it's relevant to your purpose, it's a valid question.
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Originally posted by Michael S:
Therefore, I think you would suggest me to do past paper questions. I did, and the problem is the past paper questions are so advanced that even one question can ask you several concepts. So I don't know where to dip. Can you share some of your experience on activating past paper questions?
If you can identify that a question requires several concepts, you certainly have an idea of what concepts you need! 
Layer those first and see where that leads you. You can then build your next goals based on the information you get from this one.
Other places to look: Your syllabus requirements, lecture handouts, course objectives and seniors. Oh, and some lecturers are quite happy to tell you outright.
KWLee
[This message has been edited by KWLee (edited February 29, 2004).]
