How can you improve your comprehension skills?

The following tips can be followed to improve comprehension skills: 

1.       You must read a variety of materials without limiting yourself to textbooks as it helps you to understand how information is organized in a text. 

2.       Read a big portion of the material otherwise it would be difficult to assess reading comprehension based on one or two paragraphs. Reading through an entire section or chapter would help. 

3.       Circle the unknown or unfamiliar words as you read so that you can look it up in a dictionary and find its meaning for better comprehension. It also improves the personal involvement of the reader in the process of reading.

4.       Try to make notes of the material you have read so as to see if a particular area can be recalled after some time. 

5.       Consider how interesting the subject matter is and how much you already know about the subject. This helps you to considerably evaluate the reading material. 

6.       Answer questions about the material after reading it in order to find out how much of it you have understood. This way you can find out how much of the material you have read can be recalled from memory.