• skim through the entire paper to get a general overview(even whie studying a chapter) • check answers at the end of each page • memory palace • envision yourself in place you learnt that piece of information • When you get stuck, push yourself to solve the problem for 15 more minutes. During that 15 minutes, document everything you do, keeping in mind that someone else will need those details if they’re going to help you. After that time, if you’re still stuck, you must ask for help. • Speed reeading: stop subvocalizing the words that ypu read stop backtracking every few sentences stop overfixating. Let your peripheral vision do the work(use a tracker like a pencil or finger and drag under the words and count till 2. gradually increase speed never stopping and never moving backwards ) • vivid vocab and stories association