What Is Reading Comprehension

Welcome to the World of Reading Comprehension

Andrew Dungan has the opportunity of a lifetime, a full ride scholarship to medical school, provided he passes his MCAT with a particular score. He does not know who his benefactor is. What he does know is that he is concerned, because while he excels at his practical applications and labs, his reading comprehension skills are less than spectacular. He knows that this is an area he needs to work on and improve, but has never managed to find the time to do it. His test is in three weeks and he fears that if he does not score well on the Reading Comprehension portion of the test, he might lose the scholarship. The scholarship is important to him, because he does not have the funds to pay for medical school on his own. He has no doubt he will be a good doctor, but his ability to pay for his own education is limited. Without this scholarship, he will have to say goodbye to his dreams of becoming a doctor.

Mariah Rabinovich has recently been promoted as the director of her department. While she is bright, talented, and a quick study, she is not completely versed in the specifics of her new department. There is a quarterly meeting coming up where she is expected to speak about the direction they will be taking for the next few years. The only way she can properly prepare for this presentation is to read the thousands and thousands of pages of material, understand and absorb the information, all within a very short period of time.

Ben Lomas tries really hard in school. He likes his teachers, and he puts time into his studies, but it seems that no matter how hard he tries, he just can't grasp all the material that is in the textbook. His grades are hovering just around the range where he might not be able to play in the next home game, and this is important to him. What Ben can't understand is why, after reading for hours and hours, he simply cannot retain the material.

Reading Comprehension is essential for all walks of life.
Most people need to read today.
Whether it is for school to pass a class, for an entrance exam for college or graduate school, or for their profession, reading is the single most important skill you will ever develop. All three examples above demonstrate that reading is considered to be a critical skill. But even more important than learning to read is understanding what is read.

Why Reading Comprehension Is Important

Reading is a skill by which we can learn just about anything. The better you read and understand what you read, the better you will do in school, in your job, and ultimately in your life.

What if you're not that skilled? Then you're in the right place. You're not alone. Many people actually relate better to numbers, or when practically applying their knowledge, than they do by reading and understanding what they read.

The problem is that no other skill is used more often in life than reading. It is used for school, recreation, and for improving your position at work.

The good news is that reading and its subsequent comprehension is a skill that can be learned, improved, and assimilated, no matter why you need it.

As you go through this course, we encourage you to find books on something that you enjoy. Don't force yourself to read books you know you must read. It is better to find books about things that you enjoy for the purposes of this course. Why? Because you will automatically be motivated to read information that is important to you, information that you already find interesting. You will also discover that you already have a certain core knowledge about the subject, so you will see how you can add new bits of information to this core knowledge.

This is an important step in the process of reading and reading comprehension.

One reason we have difficulty when learning a new topic is that our knowledge about the new material is either non-existent, or is very limited. This makes it difficult to learn something new. As you add to your store of knowledge on a topic you are already interested in, you will see how quickly you can improve your skills.

This set of skills is transferable. So when you sit down with a new topic, you will understand how your brain works when presented with new material, you will apply methods you learned in the "easy" situation to this more "difficult" situation. Once you understand the process, you will find that learning new material is now easier than it has ever been before.

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