Are you just watching or making an active reading?

Active reading consists in getting all the content of the text, understanding "through the lines". To do this, I'll give some key techniques to start making an active reading and stop losing time.

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• Record yourself reading the text
• Underline the text
• Make annotations at margins
• Ask yourself questions (think critically)
• Sticky notes
• Close the book and ask yourself what is it about
• Look for important words
• Explain what you've read to someone else