As a college student, you will have a hard time increasing your reading speed. You’ll need to start by finding out if you have bad reading habits and if you find out that you really do have some bad reading habits, you’ll first need to seek services or get a course from someone who knows all about reading. It is then and only then that you can now think about trying to speed up the rate at which you read.

The list of things you will need to increase your reading speed goes on and on and is endless. However, these are some of the most important things you will need.

Read every day and your speed will increase

The truth is that if you want to increase your rate of reading information, you will have to read every day. Without doing this, there is no way it can increase with speed. Reading is like writing online. In online typing, the only way to really increase your speed is to write every day to get used to it. And when you’re used to it, you’ll find it very easy to even write a whole batch of 50 articles a day.

In the same way, when you read every day, you will get used to it and find that it will be much easier to read course material or lecture notes at a much faster pace.

If it’s a textbook, use context clues; Otherwise, use a dictionary to find out the meaning of words you don’t understand.

One of the biggest obstacles most college students face that slows down their reading speed is trying to figure out the meaning of words they don’t understand in their head while reading. This is a very big mistake and doing so will not only slow you down, it will also slow down the rate at which you assimilate.

For example, if you are reading a textbook and come across a difficult word, simply use the context clues from that textbook to figure out the meaning of the difficult word you encountered. If it’s not a textbook, but something like your course material or a class note or whatever, just grab a dictionary to quickly find the meaning of the difficult word. This will not only increase your understanding of the material, but will also help increase your reading speed.