Paste a reading. Get a summary plus comprehension and discussion questions to read with purpose.
PDF or Word: a chapter, a journal article, or a handout.
Recognizing a page is not the same as being able to say what it argued. Active reading means going into a text with questions you have to answer, so your attention has a target and you find out straight away which parts you only skimmed. Paste or upload a reading here and you get a short summary plus comprehension and discussion questions to read against.
Highlighting marks what looked important while you were still reading passively, which is part of why a marked-up chapter can feel familiar and still be hard to explain afterwards. A summary tells you what the passage is doing, and the questions give you something specific to hunt for as you read.
Each comprehension question keeps its model answer behind a click, because reading the answer first gives you the feeling of knowing without the test. Attempt it in your own words, then reveal, and the gap between the two is the thing worth rereading.
Comprehension questions check whether you took in what the text actually says. Discussion and critical-thinking questions push at what it implies, what it leaves out and where you could reasonably disagree, which is the material a seminar or an essay is built from.
The questions and answers are generated from the passage you supply, and they can flatten a nuance or miss a qualification the author was careful about. The source is the authority: where an answer and the passage disagree, the passage wins.
Yes, as long as the file holds real text. Set readings usually arrive as a PDF or a Word file, so you can upload the chapter, article or handout instead of copying it out by hand. A scanned PDF that is really a photograph of the page has no text to pull, so paste that one in yourself. Pasting works too when you only need one section.
Not as much as it feels like it does. Rereading builds familiarity, and familiarity feels like understanding right up to the moment someone asks you a question. Answering a question is harder, and it shows you what you actually retained, which is what a set of questions is for.
One you cannot answer by pattern-matching a single sentence. What the author's main claim is, what evidence carries it, what would follow if it were true. If you can answer by copying a line, it is checking your eyesight rather than your understanding.
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