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3 Proven Benefits Of Summarizing What You Read
Being student like meyou have a lot of material to read on a weekly basis. This wouldn’t be a problem if all the assigned reading involved mindless material that you wouldn’t be tested on.
But the reality is – you have to read a lot, and all remember everything you read for the tests, let me present you a game winner method of reading which is the reason success for many students across the globe and that is summarize what you read, Summarization is a great form of note taking.
Taking notes is the key and if you aren’t before start taking now as it helps in remembering what you read before and hints you about the exercise you do, and you can quickly wrap things up when you are reading if for the second time. That’s like going from a B to an A, as per study of Robert J. Marzano, summarizing strategies on average increase a student’s ability to understand content by 19 percent.
Here are 3 benefits of summarizing what you read.
1. Summarizing ensures you are producing something and have had a productive and successful study session — the key to productive study sessions.
The key to study is producing something that represents something, you haven’t studied if you haven’t produced anything like notes, chart or flashcards. While summarizing you are actively engaging in the material you are reading and it stays in a mind for a little longer.
2. Summarizing helps you find the main points and key details — effective learning is all about identifying and understanding main points and key details
Summarizing is like planning, it helps you highlight the important details of paragraph, learning effectively meaning going through key points. Don’t forget summary should always have specified details nothing more. Summarizing 8 lines paragraph can have 2-3 lines main bullet points.
3. Summarizing saves time during test review sessions — especially if the test format is short answer or essay. You can say a whole lot more in your own words than you can in someone else’s words.
The great benefit of summarizing is when you have a test on head you can just go through your notes and you can recall all the chapters instead of reading thoroughly which takes a lot of time, and is like finding a needle in a haystack.
Summarizing shortens the steps, it helps you increase your effectiveness & efficiency specially if you have a written test that includes essays and short answers. You can write a lot on such exam with your words than write someone else’s words.
Start applying these strategies, your grades will thank you.
