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Emily Vargas

Five Classic Ways to Boost Your Note-Taking - 0 views

  • Divide your page into two columns. The left one
  • You're going to jot larger ideas in this column:
  • In the right column, you're going to take down as much information as possible
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  • Some versions of the Cornell system leave the last few lines on each page for summarizing the whole page
  • cover the detailed notes on the right and just examine the main points and new vocab
  • have pictures and tables—it's not necessarily organized
  • But unless you try it, you'll never know if it works better for you.
  • Color-code with different pens, pencils, and highlighters.
  • Trying some new shorthand is a really geeky way to slightly tweak your engravings and get you amped about taking notes again.
  • It's mostly based around removing unimportant letters and making complex letters easier to write quickly.P
  • you might try translating just some of your most-frequently used words into a shorthand "language" that takes less time to writ
  • Record your lectures
anonymous

Geek to Live: Take study-worthy lecture notes - 1 views

  • Copying class notes after the fact is a time-consuming way to study for an exam, but it was the only thing that truly worked for me back in college.
    • anonymous
       
      This is the most effective way for me too, just reading over the notes and textbook just isn't enough studying to get me well prepared for a test. 
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    Copying class notes after the fact is a time-consuming way to study for an exam, but it was the only thing that truly worked for me back in college
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