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Re:How to Solve Hard Problem Sets Without Staying Up All Night by zeteo on Monday October 11, 2010 @06:11PM (#1781490)
"When you’re given a reading assignment, for example, you can estimate, within 10 – 20 minutes, how long it will take you to complete."

As long as it's not a scientific paper...

Re:How to Solve Hard Problem Sets Without Staying Up All Night by wwortiz on Monday October 11, 2010 @07:51PM (#1781756)
Or a bad engineering textbook, god I hate Wiley publishing.
Re:How to Solve Hard Problem Sets Without Staying Up All Night by fuzzmeister on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @02:51AM (#1782552)
The same applies to any kind of reading with a deeper philosophical underpinning. Reading the words in no way means you truly understand what's being said.