Note taking

Taking notes during lectures is very beneficial to students in a number of ways. One, which is to remember and it will save student time relying on memory later on. You can be an amazing listener, but unless you have good note taking skills, it will be hard for you to remember what the teacher said in previous lectures. For notes to become useful, they should be well structured and you can go through them over and over so that the information remains fresh days prior to the exam. Reviewing and pre-reviewing are two main steps students should do before they step into the next class. It is very beneficial for students to review the notes previously taken notes to help link between what has been previously taught and what is to come next class. This does not take much time but it will help keep the information fresh in the students minds. Also, skimming through the textbook before getting into the classroom will help students become acquainted with the main notions and concepts and this, in turn, will make it easy to follow with the teachers lecture. Moreover, usually, most students feel hesitated whether to jot down some notes or not; this happens when they do not know if the information is important or not. In this case, the best way is to take those notes when you are in doubt. The reason is that it is better to write too much than not enough. This is where not knowing how to properly take notes comes into play. Personally, having used one style of note taking for many years it was a challenge trying to take notes using a new method. I felt like using the note taking styles we learned in Chapter 12, I was not able to get enough information to remember what was being taught. I usually take summary notes by using short cuts, so I stayed away from that style for this assignment. Some ways to become an effective note taker is to effectively use abbreviations, although a lot of students do not like to use abbreviations on the ground that they may not