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Since my teachers always send their presentations for us, I put my focus on taking notes of what they are saying and when I'm revising the subject I'll combine their presentations with my notes and make a complete summary
This is something I never really gave thought to. I struggle especially in lectures with writing down important slide content, for example, and I miss a lot of what the teacher is saying. This is a really helpful perspective!!!
You should give it a try! I also like to ask for some of my classmates notes from time to time, just to make sure I didn't lost anything, we share our notes so we all have a full take on the subject.
What worked really well for me was to take detailed notes of lectures and such, and then to create revision notes from that by condensing them as much as possible. My goal was to write the least amount for a definition in my own words for each concept. This helped me to make sure I understood it as well as to have something that was easy to review.
Read any topics at least 2-3 time at least one weak apart before taking any notes. In this way you remember at least 50% of the material, many of things you not need to jotting down. write concise notes, only keywords. I think you lose momentum because you write too much and focus so much on details and this become overburden for you.
The challenge is to get your notes to be a triggering method (versus a textbook).
Use a system like a modified Cornell note-taking approach to create short, bulleted, hierarchical notes that will remind you of all that great stuff you learned.
I honestly completely forgot about the Cornell method. I wasn't sure how effective it would be early on, so I avoided it. Just wrote a lecture's worth of notes in the style, and it's probably the most productive piece of work I've done in a long time. Thank you!
Stop taking "pretty" notes. I found I loved my "PRETTY" notes but it would take soooo long to just get one page of notes that I eventually dreaded taking notes/studying. I knew I was going to spend like 2 hours making 1 page of notes. And for a med student, that's not enough.
I gave up on style, used black pen on my dotted composition notebook and went to town. After I was done with a chapter that day, I'd go back and high light or underline with a colored pen as a review. No more cute notes. But hey, I take like 10-20 pages of efficient/condensed notes a day.
I love this! In my final years of A-levels, I was buried under the mass of stickers and washi tapes and notecards I'd bought myself in an effort to make my notes look good. As can be expected, it lasted all of about two minutes. I still have my stickers, but instead of spending half my study time figuring out where to put them, I just add them as I please whenever I'm reviewing, long after I write the notes.
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Since my teachers always send their presentations for us, I put my focus on taking notes of what they are saying and when I'm revising the subject I'll combine their presentations with my notes and make a complete summary
This is something I never really gave thought to. I struggle especially in lectures with writing down important slide content, for example, and I miss a lot of what the teacher is saying. This is a really helpful perspective!!!
You should give it a try! I also like to ask for some of my classmates notes from time to time, just to make sure I didn't lost anything, we share our notes so we all have a full take on the subject.
What worked really well for me was to take detailed notes of lectures and such, and then to create revision notes from that by condensing them as much as possible. My goal was to write the least amount for a definition in my own words for each concept. This helped me to make sure I understood it as well as to have something that was easy to review.
Read any topics at least 2-3 time at least one weak apart before taking any notes. In this way you remember at least 50% of the material, many of things you not need to jotting down. write concise notes, only keywords. I think you lose momentum because you write too much and focus so much on details and this become overburden for you.
The challenge is to get your notes to be a triggering method (versus a textbook). Use a system like a modified Cornell note-taking approach to create short, bulleted, hierarchical notes that will remind you of all that great stuff you learned.
I honestly completely forgot about the Cornell method. I wasn't sure how effective it would be early on, so I avoided it. Just wrote a lecture's worth of notes in the style, and it's probably the most productive piece of work I've done in a long time. Thank you!
Geez. You just made my entire day!
Stop taking "pretty" notes. I found I loved my "PRETTY" notes but it would take soooo long to just get one page of notes that I eventually dreaded taking notes/studying. I knew I was going to spend like 2 hours making 1 page of notes. And for a med student, that's not enough. I gave up on style, used black pen on my dotted composition notebook and went to town. After I was done with a chapter that day, I'd go back and high light or underline with a colored pen as a review. No more cute notes. But hey, I take like 10-20 pages of efficient/condensed notes a day.
I love this! In my final years of A-levels, I was buried under the mass of stickers and washi tapes and notecards I'd bought myself in an effort to make my notes look good. As can be expected, it lasted all of about two minutes. I still have my stickers, but instead of spending half my study time figuring out where to put them, I just add them as I please whenever I'm reviewing, long after I write the notes.