<p>reading = not my forte</p>
<p>Are you retaining the knowledge well enough now, and just want to do it faster, or are you going too slowly and also not retaining the information now?</p>
<p>Also, were you reading well enough in high school, or is this a problem you have in both high school and college?</p>
<p>there are tons of books out there about “how to become an A+ college student”… alot of them have guides on how to read faster, better, and more efficiently, all the while retaining all the most key ideas in the text. google up “college study guides”…</p>
<p>Reading faster- read a lot, and you get faster. There are other ways to do it to, but that’s the old school way.</p>
<p>Retaining more- ask yourself questions during reading, take notes, talk it over with someone who is also reading the same book (explain different parts to each other, when you explain something to someone else, you understand it a lot better too)</p>
<p>“Practice makes perfect” comes to mind…</p>
<p>read read read. you can only improve by reading. improving on understanding/retaining the concepts can be done by understanding proper english grammar and as someone else said think of/imagine what you are reading about. like when i read novels i always imagine what is going on, even for textbooks or what not when im studying i imagine little cells/proteins/atoms and it helps. </p>
<p>now if you want to read really fast, try reading two lines at the same time. i used to be able to read 3 lines at a time and understand it perfectly but for some reason i cant anymore. i blame harry potter.</p>