<p>If you do, which subjects do you read it for?</p>
<p>I’m more one to skim my books than really read them. Goes for pretty much everything.</p>
<p>I did the skimming first semester, and it did not work, for me.</p>
<p>Second semester, I actually studied the textbooks in all my classes and did much better.</p>
<p>It completely depends upon the class if I read or skim through a textbook.</p>
<p>Chem –> I barely opened the book
His –> I skimmed through
Lit –> I read.</p>
<p>Depends.</p>
<p>Japanese: read
Chinese: read
Chemistry: skimmed
Anthropology: since tests are based on the reading questions in the book, I just look for passages that corresponds to and answers the questions and ignore everything else.
Biology: skimmed
English: read</p>
<p>For this semester:</p>
<p>Physical chemistry: read
Inorganic chemistry: skimmed
Roman Civilization: did not open
Probability: read only when I was stuck on a problem</p>
<p>Then I had 3 lab classes and one online class, none of which had textbooks.</p>
<p>Psychology: only read before test
Asian Studies: don’t read
Math, Chem, Phys, Bio, and ANY other math/sci: Read, read, read, read, read. Intro math/sci course lectures are ABSOLUTELY USELESS and so you have to teach yourself the material and get straight A’s
I don’t even go to math,phys,chem cause teachers teach out of the book and the book is better at teaching</p>
<p>Media Ethics: Read
Philosophy (6 required books): Didn’t open any of them.
Art History: Read a lot.
Impacts of technology: Didn’t open
History (2 required books): Didn’t open either.
Geology: Read at first but then realized notes were taken right from the book.</p>
<p>Just depends on the notes you get/take in class and how intense the tests are.</p>
<p>If I don’t read all assigned readings before the class for which they’re assigned then I generally feel as though I’ve fallen behind even if I haven’t. I feel like I could do equally as well in some classes without reading at all, but I can’t help but feel bothered if I don’t keep up.</p>
<p>I usually skim the book before/during the time it’s being taught, then read/outline if I still feel confused before the test. Works pretty well for me.</p>
<p>For this semester:
Biology: Read
Anthropology: Read
Music Appreciation: Read (especially since test questions were heavily based on the book)
Calculus I: skim or not read at all. I mostly rely on class notes or only look at example problems, rather than read all the theory stuff behind a particular concept (like derivatives. I don’t understand them by reading the theory stuff, I understand them by actually working them out).</p>
<p>And then for classes that I’ve taken in past semesters:
Nutrition - read
Japanese - read
Chinese - read
writing classes - read
Chemistry - read the book 1st semester, skimmed 2nd semester since my 2nd semester Chem professor was new to teaching, so he read stuff straight of the book.</p>
<p>If I’ve skipped class, I read the section we went over. Otherwise, no.</p>
<p>I read whatever is on hand when I am bored…sooooo…yes all of them, I have read all of my textbooks</p>
<p>Econ: Skimmed
BioC: Read
Chem: Never Opened
Poli Sci: Read
Calc: Never Opened
Roman Civ: Never Opened</p>
<p>I did pretty well.</p>
<p>Chem: Skimmed, and when that didn’t work, read.
Bio: READ
Calc: Never even “opened” after the first time because we had an online one they were testing out on us that was HORRIBLE.
World Lit: Always always always read. But that’s obvious.
Linguistics/Psych classes, skim/read depending on the topic.</p>
<p>It’s different for different people. If I cannot get by with the teacher’s lectures and notes, then I read the book. </p>
<p>That being said, I usually read the book for every single subject.</p>
<p>I didn’t really use any of my books, such a waste of money. I used lectures, slides, the internet etc.</p>
<p>The books also didn’t seem very interesting (most subjects id already taken(</p>
<p>Next year when i start ME classes though I’ll read the books. They’ll be new and more interesting.</p>
<p>I had every intention of reading the books I was assigned (non-fiction accounts of different conflicts in Europe) but my time management sucked so I ended up reading the first hundred pages and then hunted down points for my essay based on the index. Some books I was assigned to read, like Turabian style guide or really boring tutorial documents, I didn’t bother to read.</p>
<p>You arent really suposed to read them. Most teachers tell you not to unless they tell you what pages to read. What really happens is the book companys and the schools have a little scam going and they both make alot of money if you buy all the books from them.So even if the teacher tells you to use the text book you could do good even without them. You know they didnt make them for you to buy to learn with but just so they can make alot of money cause they should only be like $20 but they are more then $100 sometimes. Like do they need to be hard covered? Even that isnt special cause its just a piece of cardboard. If you cut it in half you can see thats its made out of the same stuff that cardboard is made out of.</p>
<p>I read what is required, and very little beyond that. I work on only what I need to. My work philosophy is: do as little as possible. This allows me to focus on what is important. I test faster and better than most people because of it.</p>