Speed reading tests are available in all kinds of speed reading courses. These tests are beneficial for comprehension testing and monitoring your reading speed.
Speed readings courses ask you to read faster, attain a meditative state by slowing down the brainwaves, read with a vertical pattern and use meta guiding ways to improve your reading. Vertical reading means reading down the page rather than reading from left to right. Meta guiding means reading your words using a pointer that will enable your eyes to move faster. You also need to follow the memorization technique that enables you to improve your vocabulary and take in new information that can be preserved in your mind.
You can very well monitor your reading speed through online speed reading test. Every online program have a reading test that give you a proposed time for reading and let you know the total number of words that you have read per minute.
After the reading test, you can also go for the comprehension test that is characterized by a series of questions related to the text that you have read.
The average reading speed of a normal person is around 230 words per minute. You can judge yourself by the points you get in the reading test.
Following are the reading characteristic of readers depending on the number of words they read per minute.
- If you read 0-150 words per minute, you are a slow reader and have poor comprehension.
- If you read about 150-230 words per minute, you are below average reader and have chances of improvement.
- If you read 230-350 words per minute, then you are an average reader.
- If you read 350-500 words per minute, then you are a fast reader and have high education level.
- If you read 500-800 words per minute, then you are an excellent reader with a top grade comprehension.
- If you read more than 800 words per minute, then you may tend to drop off your comprehension. Researches and studies have revealed that reading more than 800 words per minute is skeptical and if in case a reader is able to read then the reading is not perfect or accurate.
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