Reading Chapter in textbook

[wasvsdal]

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How long does it take you to read a chapter in a science textbook? I was reading and timing myself today, and I read at 10 mins a page. Finished 10 pages in 2 hours.. Am I reading really slow?

Its almost ridiculous!

Novels, etc. I usually go at 30-60 pages/hour, depending on the book.

 

[MilkmanAl]

It doesn't matter. What you should be concerned about is how long it takes you to read a review book page. 😉

 

[azuldelcielo]

it depends on the subject. when i read biology and take notes, maybe 1 hour for 10 pages.

novels go a lot quicker.

 

[Caesar]

Depends on how much text is on a page and the topic. I read a chapter in my Cell Bio book in about 30 mins. BioChem is taking me forever because there is alot to take in and I don't particularly enjoy the way the text is written.

 

[GoldShadow]

Agreed with the above. It depends.

A chapter in my immunology book is taking about 2-3 hours. A chapter in my genetics book usually took me about 20-30 minutes.

 

[linguini]

Are you including the time that you fall asleep from boredom or not?

 

[joponoda]

Eu Genetic about 30 per chapter
Proteins about 1:30 per chapter

Depends on how dense the material is, and how much I really want to learn (if I want to waste time with the interesting side notes).

 

[wasvsdal]

A chapter in an hour...

are these books ridiculously simpler compared to mine or am I a ****?

 

[azuldelcielo]

how long are the chapters? i remember for my general bio class that the chapters were less than 20 pages long, but for orgo they were around 50-60 pages.

 

[wasvsdal]

Cell Biology book by Karp

 

[JackInTheBox]

A chapter in an hour...

are these books ridiculously simpler compared to mine or am I a ****?

Yes.

 

[lrkoehle]

I am a slow reader, but it also depends on the material. For instance, I don't think I ever finished reading a P. Chem chapter, the book and the material sucked. If it a topic I have seen before it is a lot easier, but with brand new material I slow down to about 10min/page and re-read stuff that seems important. Just remember, this isn't the MCAT verbal section, you aren't being timed, so don't rush. If it takes 5 hours to read, learn, and retain the material in a chapter, then don't rush to get through it in 2-3 hours.

 

[XUYunChao]

About 30 minutes per page for Anatomy & Physiology. Yes, it is excruciatingly slow. I felt like I was crawling, especially when I was expected to plow through 1000++ pages (there were about 30 chapters in the textbook). The agony is that after spending so much time and effort, you realize days later that you forgot many of the stuff you read. The curve of forgetting is real.

 

[Tintinnabula]

How long does it take you to read a chapter in a science textbook? I was reading and timing myself today, and I read at 10 mins a page. Finished 10 pages in 2 hours.. Am I reading really slow?

Its almost ridiculous!

Novels, etc. I usually go at 30-60 pages/hour, depending on the book.

I find that the information in a novel is not generally as densely packed as in an upper division science class.

I think your reading speed will also vary a bit with your background - if you're super solid in Organic, your reading of Cell Bio will speed up a bit. If you've had a couple of immunology classes, your reading for an epidemiology class will speed up.

 

[Bottle]

A chapter in an hour...

are these books ridiculously simpler compared to mine or am I a ****?

No way! I'm reading this book too. You can't read the whole thing, it is too much unnecessary materials. What I do is going through my lecture powerpoint, read the main idea presented in that slide, and use the book to understand that idea. Reading the book is huge waste of time

 

[lifetothefullest]

Especially in Bio, you don't have to know everything in the textbook and usually it's not presented in a way that intuitive to a lot of people. So what you do is go over the lecture material and use the book to look up the stuff that you don't understand or to find specific examples. In math/physics/chem, read the book to try to understand the derivations. It's immensely helpful to know where the derivations come from - I find it easier to use the equations when I know exactly where they come from and what assumptions are made.

 

[Glandzburg]

No way! I'm reading this book too. You can't read the whole thing, it is too much unnecessary materials. What I do is going through my lecture powerpoint, read the main idea presented in that slide, and use the book to understand that idea. Reading the book is huge waste of time

I hope that he is done reading it by now.

Holy necrobump, this thread is from 2008

 

[Bottle]

I hope that he is done reading it by now.

Holy necrobump, this thread is from 2008

Haha wow I didn't bother to check post date.

I think he is still stuck on that DNA replication page.

 

[Tintinnabula]

Haha wow I didn't bother to check post date.

I think he is still stuck on that DNA replication page.

Some students have a really tough time with transcription factors.

 

[frosted_flake]

I have not read an entire chapter since I have started undergrad. I find it to be an enormous waste of time. Like an above poster said, I use the text to reinforce concepts. And then sometimes that takes me a LONG time!

 

[Dayken]

Don't just try to read it, try to understand the material, do not try to memorized everything because it won't work. Use visual concepts, that would help you a lot, if you repeat what you learned in a white/ black board by drawing it and explaining it to yourself.