My little advice...
Let's say you are studying a subject in school, for example accounting. You do attend classes, but you're totally not interested in that subject. And that makes you never ever got serious while teacher's teaching, which means so far you learnt nothing. Now you feel there's no enough time left. For whatever sake you have to study that subject, starting from zero. All you have now are some familiar terms and a blur picture of some topics.
I'm sure you have tried to study that subject, at least once, before one of the exams. Most of us would start from the first chapter, planning to go through every chapter until the last one. But studying without teacher's guidance would cost so much effort. You may have given up before the first chapter, or totally exhausted right after the first chapter. Therefore you gave yourself a rest, before proceeding.
OK, the second time studying should be just fine, or as successful as the first time. But before that, we are too happy to have successfully finished the first chapter, so we would start from the first chapter, as a revision maybe. Then we ended up studying the whole chapter one again, because we found that we left out many important contents. This does not only happen for the second time, but for all the times we try to read.
Do you realize that? We are stuck to the first chapter. That's what I concluded, after doing self-revision for accounting, a couple of times. That's why everytime when I see my friends reading the first chapter, I would tell them by doing this they will never proceed.
To me, the second / third chapter and the popular ones are most advisable. First chapters are generally introduction, with the terms that we have already heard during normal lessons. So just jump to another chapter. But don't jump too far, when those chapters are related to the previous chapters. So why don't we try to read the second one and come back to the first one after that? I tried. It works all the time.
I wonder if the same theory applies to you, but I assume that as a common psycological phenomena. It sounds so scientific huh? Haha... Not funny, I know. But don't tease. This country currently needs harmony. Cheers.
