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Originally Posted by jscarbo
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I'm a retired attorney and attended law school back in the 1970's. I did very well as a law student and graduated cum laude near the top of my class. During my last year of law school was asked to teach seminars to first year students about how to study such massive amounts of material, often thousands of pages of text and casebooks each semester. I developed a system partially based on Adler's system which I taught law students and over the following years to many other university students and those preparing to enter universities.
My system involves reading through all the material three times. First, a very quick read to get an overall sense of where the material is going and what the major points are. Secondly, a very careful, analytical reading without marking up anything. Lastly, a third reading, marking up and highlighting the important points you need to remember, but only the bare minimum necessary to jog your memory or highlight absolutely essential material.
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Your system isn't really original. Mortimer J. Adler in his famous book "How to Read a Book" recommends a fast/quick superficial reading, for difficult books, the first time you read it, and then on the second reading one is supposed to read it analytically and do all the markups at the sametime. I'll leave out what he said about syntopical reading, here , for the sake of brevity. I think he would think that reading the material a third time would be superfluous and unnecessary.