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The Note Reflecting Stage
- Get a peer, tutor or teacher to give you written feedback on your initial learning phase.
- Address one area of the feedback at a time.
- Before exams and tests, reflect over the entire unit.
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Learning the right way
The goal of effective note-taking is to remember what you learned.
- It involves active learning, meaning the student is responsible for doing things with the material, such as reading, writing, discussing, and solving problems.
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The Note Making Stage
- Review and revise the note contents.
- Write questions in the left-hand column opposite the answer on the right-hand side.
- Connect key ideas using colour or symbols
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How to remember information
We tend to lose almost 40% of new information within one day of reading or hearing it, even if we write it down.
However, when we take notes effectively, we can retain and retrieve almost 100% of the knowledge we obtained.
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The Cornell Note-Taking System
This system was developed in the 1950s as part of a university preparatory course.
There are four stages to taking notes:
- Note taking
- Note making
- Note interacting
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The Note Interacting Stage
- Write a summary at the bottom of the page that addresses the key idea and answer the questions from the left margin.
- Build into your study timetable regular t...
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The Note Taking Stage
Always draw up the page for notes the same way.
- At the top, write the topic/key learning objective.
- Divide the page into two columns. The first column should be one-third of the ...
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- Spacing
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