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Mental Soaring: The Secret to Success
What does it take to be a superior student?
The most important secret to being a contender for the top of the class
has always been effective reading—and that means reading that
involves:
1. high-speed assimilation and comprehension of all sorts of subject
matter; and
2. the ability to recall that subject matter later during testing.
The superior student, then, is one who first of all can read assigned
books and handouts quickly and understand thoroughly what has been
read. Second, he is able to collect the material he’s read into well-
organized personal notes and then draw on his memory of these notes
when confronted with examination questions.
In addition to having outstanding reading abilities, the topflight
student knows how to listen in class—knows how to absorb key concepts
during oral presentations and how to take notes on lectures. Finally, he
can recall what he has heard and use it effectively at test time.
In some ways, all this may sound quite simple. But let’s be honest: We
know that only a few students really know how to make this formula
work. Yet when understood and applied, these skills are the foundation
for what I call Mental Soaring—a phenomenon that goes so far beyond
traditional studying that the best student seems to be flying through
academic material at the highest levels of comprehension.
These are the basic skills—the secrets, if you will—that have been
mastered by the elite students who get into the best schools.

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Furthermore, they are the skills typically used by the small percentage
who perform with flying colors after they’ve been admitted to various
colleges and universities.
So where does this leave the not-so-stellar student? Is it inevitable that
these special skills and secrets must remain in the academic arsenal of
only a small coterie of geniuses or near-geniuses?
Absolutely not! These techniques can enhance the learning potential of
any
student. The only problem up to now has been that no one has
bothered to tell the average or mediocre student what the top academic
performers already know: that good students aren’t born—they’re made.
To correct the misconception that academic ability is in-born, those of
us in charge of the reading and learning programs at Evelyn Wood and
the Britannica Learning Centers have decided that the time has arrived
to reveal these fundamental secrets to academic success. Using the
methods described in this book, many students have tripled their reading
speeds and increased their comprehension in our Center programs.