Basically what Kump does is try to increase your speed AND increase your comprehension level. The two are actually contradictory at first because if you want comprehention you need to slow down. But you also need higher speed, so you might sacrifice comprehension. So what Kump does is separate the two as totally distinct exercises: first get your speed up, then work your comprehension up to match it. Also, another point that was stressed was that you should always identify the purpose of every reading you do. Whether it's to get the gist of things or to look for certain key words, you should always identify that before reading.
So all the above things sound pretty normal right? well here's where Kump starts to make you see things in totally different ways. When you look at a picture, do you actually look at it horizontally "line by line" as if you're reading words? No right? Additionally, when you read do you usualy hear an inner voice reading everything you see in your head? These two are actually related. When we see a picture, we translate directly what we SEE to meaning/emotions/etc. But what we normally do when we read is we SEE, then we HEAR, and finally we UNDERSTAND. So Kump's exercises train you to forgo the HEAR TO UNDERSTAND step and jump right from SEEING TO UNDERSTANDING. Sounds kinda weird right? After awhile, you start to hear less and less of your inner voice, and start to understand the words a connection to sound. Which increases your comprehension and reading speed tremendously.
One more thing, you learn to read more than one word at once. The scope of your sight is actually in a circle and we see that all at the same time. Say if you wanted to see just ONE word in a whole paragraph, impossible right? Cuz you see words above, below, left and right. So the exercises helps you to see "blobs" of words at the same time. ANNNDDD as you're reading, you can skip over the structure words (the, a, and, etc) and pay more attention to content words (the meat of the material.)
I haven't had enough time to master all of these techniques but in the past 5 days i'd have to say my RC has improved A LOT!!! This is really a skill that you'll keep for life, it goes beyond GRE.
(now i kinda sounds like a sales representative for Peter Kump....
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