RANDFONTEIN HIGH SCHOOL

RHS ESSENTIAL 

Rewrite or Rephrase the Material in Your Own Words. It can be easy to get lost in a textbook and look back over a page, only to realise you don't remember what you just read. But luckily, that can be remedied.

For subjects that require you to read large bodies of text, such as history, English, or psychology, make sure to stop periodically as you read. Pause at the end of a paragraph or a section and—without looking!—think about what the text just stated. Re-summarize it in your own words. Now glance back over the material to make sure you summarized the information accurately and remembered the relevant details. Make a mental note of whatever you missed and then move on to the next section.
You may also want to make a bulleted list of the pertinent information instead of just rephrasing it mentally or aloud. Without looking back down at the textbook, jot down the essentials of the material you just read. Then look over the book to make sure you haven't left out any necessary information.