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Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega
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I have a couple of thoughts on preliminary/qualifying/comprehensive exams.

First, you should take care of your health and body and mind first and foremost.

Second, we all have different learning styles and all universities have different formats for QPC exams. Match both.
I happen to have quasi-eidetic (photographic) memory and I also speed read because my parents sent me to those courses when I was little. So I did read full books, every day.

HOWEVER

If you don’t have the time/possibility to do full books, read book reviews (SEVERAL) and use..
... my AIC strategy but applied to full books. Get the gist, main argument, methods, results.

But more than anything...

Learn to mind-map the connections between authors, themes, concepts, paradigms, etc.

Write by hand in index cards (try it and trust me).

And good luck!
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