![]() When reading, take down notes of those areas that are confusing. It will help you better understand what the teacher is discussing, more quickly absorb and process additional material presented and more readily recognize particularly significant points (say, when your teacher spends 10 minutes talking about the poison dart frog, not the spotted salamander, in a lecture on amphibians). Reading before class primes those all-important neural networks, kind of like warming up gets your body ready for a strenuous workout. Read assigned materials before going to class. Leave some space between lectures, and bold and enlarge the font of the lecture title and date so you can easily see when a new one begins. For each lecture, either a) start a new document and “save as” the date followed by an abbreviated title of the lecture (doing this will help when it comes time to study as you will be able to quickly see the order of the lectures by date) or b) create a running document, in which you type the title of the lecture and the date at the start of each lecture. If your teacher allows you to use your laptop in class for taking notes, create a folder for each course.Put science and history in one and literature and art in the other, for example. If you are on an alternating-day schedule, purchase two 3-ring binders. For your first course, insert plenty of loose-leaf paper, then insert a 3-ring pocket folder and finally a divider. Another way to organize your notes is by purchasing a three-ring spiral binder, loose-leaf paper, subject dividers and 3-ring pocket folders for handouts and assignments.If you miss a class, leave several pages blank in your notebook, ask a friend or your teacher if you can get those notes and insert them into the blank pages. Start each subsequent lecture on a new page and again write the title and date. On the first page, write the title of the lecture and the date and begin taking notes. For example, buy a green notebook and folder for science, a blue notebook and folder for history, a red notebook and folder for literature and so forth. Color-coordinate the folders and notebooks for each of your courses.Here are a few ways to organize your notes to avoid these pitfalls. ![]() Scattered, lost, incomplete and non-sequential notes create stress and take up valuable time that could be spent studying, not scavenging. A well-organized set of lecture notes is one of the most important tools in your exam-studying arsenal. ![]()
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