Reading a book takes a considerable amount of time. It is not possible to force students who are busy going back and forth between school and academy and gathering up their spare time to study to read books unconditionally. However, let's know exactly why we should read books and read them. Moreover, high schools cannot neglect College Scholastic Ability Test scores. Let's find a way to study that can catch both current and future grades.
Improving academic ability with reading comprehension and reading
The reason why test-takers should read books is clear. Reading is the basis of all learning, and reading ability is essential for university life. Reading activities are essential for improving academic ability. Let's recall the questions that were confusing and wrong in the last test even though we knew the subject knowledge required for problem-solving and memorized it. It is easy to think that we made a mistake in vain because we fell into a cunning trap. However, at this point, reading ability is clearly revealed. To get the correct answer, you need to be able to find the answer that the problem requires. However, if you do not understand the problem itself, you can make the same mistake in the middle, final exam, mock exam, and College Scholastic Ability Test. To be precise, it is not a mistake. It is a problem that inevitably occurs when reading comprehension is low. Reading comprehension is not something that happens overnight. It can only be raised through steady reading activities. In the end, even if you study hard, your grades will remain the same or fall if your reading ability is low. You study hard but your grades don't improve? To solve this problem fundamentally, you need to focus on reading books from now on. In addition, in Comprehensive student records screening, candidates with self-directed learning abilities that expand their interests are given top priority. These talents expand their horizons and knowledge through reading in common. And such reading activities are faithfully recorded in the student records, so universities trust and select them. In the end, what students need most is not solving math problems or memorizing English words. It's time to read books.
Accumulate rich background knowledge through reading!
Reading books in various fields is also the biggest reason why test-takers read books, as they can understand humanities, society, science, technology, art, life, language, etc. Top-tier universities always look for records of 'rich background knowledge' in student records. However, rich background knowledge is a sub-factor necessary for this. More important than background knowledge is critical thinking skills. Being good at critical thinking means that rich background knowledge is in place. Without a foundation of rich background knowledge, you cannot fully demonstrate critical thinking skills. In other words, you show what you know. Therefore, universities carefully examine whether 'critical thinking skills' are mentioned frequently in student records along with 'rich background knowledge'.
There is also a technique in reading! Active reading that enhances critical thinking
There is an important fact to note here. Simply reading a lot of books does not automatically increase the various abilities mentioned above. There is also a technique in reading. There is reading that maximizes abilities, and there is reading that leaves nothing behind compared to the time spent. Of course, you would want to do the reading that enhances your abilities. This type of reading is called active reading. The key to active reading is simply 'asking questions'. Accepting the author's argument or philosophy as it is in the book is passive reading. Active reading is 'question-and-answer reading' where you think of questions or doubts while reading the book, compare them with your own thoughts, and discard what you should discard and take what you should take.
There are various activities to enhance critical thinking skills, but the most essential activity among them is active reading. If a student who has critical thinking skills and rich background knowledge through active reading, they can be recognized for their full potential in Comprehensive student records screening, even if their academic performance is not outstanding. What kind of books can improve academic ability? Reading comprehension determines College Scholastic Ability Test scores. There are students who read a lot of books but still have poor test scores. These students have something in common. Students who read a lot of novels, limited to novels, despite extensive reading, do not improve their grades. There are also cases that are the opposite. Many students who read a lot of science books from an early age also have poor mock exam scores. Any reading is clearly something that enhances thinking skills.
However, what determines grades is balance. Reading various books such as literature, science, and social sciences determines grades. Especially, the time when books are read, such as before and after elementary school, also plays an important role in determining grades. The grades of students who read various books before the fifth grade of elementary school are high. Then, is there a way to make up for it now in high school? Yes. It is to read and reread College Scholastic Ability Test passages to force the improvement of problem-solving skills. Then, grades will improve in the short term. Reading is a way to capture both grades and thinking skills. However, since grades are also important in high school, let's make reading passages a habit while reading books. It is a way to capture both grades and thinking skills. Today's reading determines university and beyond.
