Accelerated Learning Techniques

One of the important things in reading quickly is to not to read word by word as if you are reading aloud. Instead just glance through the text, you will read quicker. Another way to improve your reading speed is to do finger tracking. When your finger is moving ahead your eyes the eye has to keep pace with the finger. As a result even if you feel that you cannot remember something you read you will not go back. Instead you will keep on reading. The end result is that your reading speed is improved and you are acquiring accelerated learning techniques.

Your reading speed has to vary according to the reading material. For instance the speed you attain at reading a news paper cannot be attained in reading a text book. Changing your speed according to the text you are reading is useful in improving your reading speed.

Self confidence is important for acquiring accelerated learning techniques. To acquire fast reading skills you need to have self confidence. The reason is that if you practice speed reading courageously, you will be able to attain high reading speeds. Otherwise if you become complacent you will not achieve anything.

Another important fact about speed reading which is one of the accelerated learning techniques is that when you read you don't need to read words one by one. Instead you can read several words in one glance. This is easy to practice and it is easy to improve on. The best example is the newspapers. When you read newspapers you don't read each and every word. Instead you glance at the paper and see several words together and finally you grasp the meaning. You can practice the same technique for reading text books also. Once you have acquired the skill of speed reading you have acquired one of the most important accelerated learning techniques