Recall the experience of reading a magazine, you grab it, you start reading it, you check the images, the text. And that's it. If that's how you are reading your textbooks, you're doing it from the previous lesson we talked about taking notes after reading the material. And taking those notes is one of the best strategies to turn studying into something active rather than passive. When you take notes using the Cornell Method by coming up with questions and then answering them with a short summary. You are making the whole process active by adding notes, comments, your opinion to the things you read, you are also adding up to what you just learned, which basically helps with the retention of the material.

So when you deliberately make your study sessions more active, you turn them into much more effective study sessions. active reading reduces the amount of time you have to According to recalling and memorizing the information, because you can remember the information you just read much more when you actively work with it as Virginia votes that how often you read something is immaterial how you read it is crucial. Skimming is also a great way to active reading the material because you're consciously selecting what is really important for your own studies and you are also priming your brain about the content that it will later be exposed. Another great way to make your study sessions more active and effective is to create summaries. And so we are going to cover that in the next lesson.