Music 1 Study Habits
Information on effective reading/study habits.
Here is a quote from "Taking Notes and Reading," section 9 of Clemson University's College Survival Skills Website. I highly recommend browsing the whole site--there is useful information about differences between high school and college expectations.
Read, Stop, and Ask
This simple rule can really help you in your efforts to assimilate textbook information. The sheer quantity and density of information in biology texts can sometimes be overwhelming, so one way to help transfer what you’ve read from your short-term memory into your long-term memory is to read a section no longer than one page, stop, and then quiz yourself on what you’ve just read and how it relates to what you already know about the subject. This method plays on the human brain’s ability to learn more easily when material is presented in short segments. It also forces you to make conceptual and factual connections between new and old ideas, which helps to organize complex information in your brain more meaningfully.
This method is very effective, but requires that you spend significant time with the material at hand. In fact, one might stop after each paragraph or section and ask "What was the significant information contained in this paragraph?" To try to race through all the assigned reading is not recommended, since you'll rarely be able to maintain concentration, and the blocks of information will be too large to store in even your short-term memory, much less your long-term memory