I hope these help!
Tip Number One: Review your notes nightly
Tip Number One: Review your notes nightly
- This tip mainly applies to History classes and English, but if you review your notes every night or every other night when it comes time to take your test the night before won’t be as chaotic.
- It’s extremely beneficial when the teacher reviews the notes from the day before and you can totally follow along.
- Organization can be really challenging to some people, but once you get in the swing of it it’s very helpful.
- Always record assignments when the teacher announces them!! Even if you think you can remember it RECORD IT in an agenda, sticky note, phone, whatever works!
- Note taking can be really meticulous and hard depending on the class.
- One thing that has really helped me is summarizing what the teacher says and turning it into my own words. What happens sometimes is I think I understand it in class because I’ve rearranged it in my mind, but once I get home I go blank because the notes are not written how I thought about it earlier.
- Drawing pictures to explain processes is totally underrated!
- Instead of words, drawings are sometimes very necessary, especially in science classes.
- On the side of my notebook I always right examples of real world situations… like in Chemistry we talk about repulsion and equations that are directly and inversely proportional. Therefore, I might write a quick sentence about what will a crowd do when it gets too close. They move away (repulsion).
- Those types of short examples and drawings really help while doing homework and studying for tests.
- This one is quite different so I don’t know if it’ll help everyone, but I know it helps me.
- While I’m studying the night before a big test I separate my notes into big categories. Each category will have its own room in the house. In result, while I’m taking my test if I forget something I’ll be like wait… I remember going over this in my bedroom.. ahh it was the Industrial Revolution.