A tikkun is a traditional text from which one studies a Torah portion in preparation for reading from the Torah. When this author was preparing to read Torah for the first time, she was given a recording of her two aliyot and a copy of the associated page in "Tikkun Lakor'im". She was expected to listen to the recording and practice her assigned verses using the right side of the tikkun page (see Figure 8 below). When sufficiently fluent, she was expected to use the left side of the tikkun page to see if she could chant the assigned verses without the vowel and ta'am marks.

The font is small and clear on most of the pages. The vowels are sometimes faint, requiring the reader to consult another reliable text source to be sure to chant the text according to the te'amim.

The pashta ta'am (  ֙ ) is typeset in a non-standard position, such as found over the words: over the words:

This pashta ta'am is traditionally placed just to the left and above the last letter of the word that it punctuates, as in

This tikkun places it above and centered over the last letter of the word it punctuates,

creating potential confusion with the kadma ta'am (  ֨ ), which is placed over the first letter of the accented syllable.

Although, it's not evident in Figure 8 and 8a above, the zakef‑katon ta'am is not consistently centered over the first letter of the accented syllable on which it appears in this publication.

The left side is hand-written in the manner in which the Torah scroll is written. Sometimes the hand-written text is so cramped as to make the spaces between words difficult to distinguish. While this makes it difficult for the novice reader to read, this feature makes this tikkun a good source for training one's eye to the appearance of the Torah scroll in preparation for a public reading.

Even if a novice reader uses a more visually helpful text with vowels and te'amim to learn their Torah reading, it is appropriate to eventually use a tikkun source, such as this one or the one in the next section, to prepare for reading from the actual Torah scroll. The Torah scroll is usually not available until the day of the public reading, so it is a good idea to find a reasonable substitute during the preparation phase.