Post by toweringniceguy on Feb 2, 2007 13:21:55 GMT 10
Use a large 8 1/2" x 11" notebook with plenty of paper. Divide the notebook into sections, one section for each course. If your notes for each course are together, this ties up your knowledge. Tie-ups help you learn.
Date your notes for each lecture.
When your instructor enters the room practice getting set. Get pen and paper ready, put the "student" away, focus your attention on the speaker. Have your mind set and ready to receive the first idea that is presented. Try to keep your attention from wandering until the speaker finishes at the end of the hour.
For the notes you make during class, use only the right 3/4 of the page. (Maybe it helps you to draw a vertical line a couple of inches from the left edge.) This format is important.
Make your notes in the large section of the page. Do not copy verbatim every word that is spoken. You are not a court reporter. Think, analyze, judge, compare, digest what the lecturer says; then, in your own words, summarize the main ideas and key facts in a few brief, logical phrases. Try to use the language of the subject as often as you can.
Get charts, definitions, graphs, tables, formulas. Get everything which helps you to learn. You need not try for a literary pattern or style; all you want to do is MAKE SOME NOTES THAT WILL HELP YOU REMEMBER AND REVIEW WHAT THE PROFESSOR SAID.
Right after the lecture, or just as soon as possible, write the main points, questions, and cue words in the left-hand column. Try to develop some questions, use your own key words and ideas. Underline some of them. Use colored pencils or pens. Draw arrows from your ideas in the summary to your notes. Star important points -- make them stand out. Make each page look different.
Review your notes right after you make them. Review by covering the right-hand section of your notes. Then, using your summary, see if you can recite the notes in your own words when they are covered up. If you can -- you know them. If you can't, this is the best time to learn them. Review as often as you need to, of course, but make this first review within 24 hours. Even this may be too long to wait.
During the week before an exam, go through the same process for each page of notes, tying them all together by your reviews.
Right before the exam, review all the material in all your left-hand columns as a final preparation -- it gives you a lift right when you need it most, and it takes only a few minutes
Date your notes for each lecture.
When your instructor enters the room practice getting set. Get pen and paper ready, put the "student" away, focus your attention on the speaker. Have your mind set and ready to receive the first idea that is presented. Try to keep your attention from wandering until the speaker finishes at the end of the hour.
For the notes you make during class, use only the right 3/4 of the page. (Maybe it helps you to draw a vertical line a couple of inches from the left edge.) This format is important.
Make your notes in the large section of the page. Do not copy verbatim every word that is spoken. You are not a court reporter. Think, analyze, judge, compare, digest what the lecturer says; then, in your own words, summarize the main ideas and key facts in a few brief, logical phrases. Try to use the language of the subject as often as you can.
Get charts, definitions, graphs, tables, formulas. Get everything which helps you to learn. You need not try for a literary pattern or style; all you want to do is MAKE SOME NOTES THAT WILL HELP YOU REMEMBER AND REVIEW WHAT THE PROFESSOR SAID.
Right after the lecture, or just as soon as possible, write the main points, questions, and cue words in the left-hand column. Try to develop some questions, use your own key words and ideas. Underline some of them. Use colored pencils or pens. Draw arrows from your ideas in the summary to your notes. Star important points -- make them stand out. Make each page look different.
Review your notes right after you make them. Review by covering the right-hand section of your notes. Then, using your summary, see if you can recite the notes in your own words when they are covered up. If you can -- you know them. If you can't, this is the best time to learn them. Review as often as you need to, of course, but make this first review within 24 hours. Even this may be too long to wait.
During the week before an exam, go through the same process for each page of notes, tying them all together by your reviews.
Right before the exam, review all the material in all your left-hand columns as a final preparation -- it gives you a lift right when you need it most, and it takes only a few minutes
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