<p>Is it useless/time-wasting? I try to handle my notebook with care because it keeps smudging....>.<</p>
<p>Here's another question...do you even look at your notes from the last week/month/years?</p>
<p>I barely look at my notes after I've written them down...but I feel like high school would be a lot more easier if I kept looking back at my notes.</p>
<p>Depends on the class.</p>
<p>And I recently bought a 0.2 mm pen. It writes like a mechanical pencil except darker and maybe a little thinner. It also doesn’t smudge :] So now I can treat my notebooks recklessly without the fear of illegibility.</p>
<p>I look back on AP Chem notes because the only times that the teacher bothers to raise his hand is to give us a hint on the upcoming test.</p>
<p>Sometimes I’ll look at history notes to get a pithy memory refresher. </p>
<p>But most of the times I just read or take new notes to study.</p>
<p>lol I never look at my old notes. I don’t even know why I take them if I have the textbook, which is more complete</p>
<p>Yes, for classes such as AP Biology and USH which involved memorization, I studied for every test, the finals, and the AP test by going through the corresponding notes and rewriting them, trying to fit them on as few pages as possible. At the end of the year, I had the entire relevant US History curriculum condensed into three sheets of paper (front and back). This method worked for me; I got fives on both exams</p>
<p>I reread notes before tests in all of my classes. But I usually just reread whatever will be on the test.
I reread my entire 9th grade Honors Modern History notebook before I took the World History SAT Subject Test since I’d only taken APUSH, APHG, and APAH since then.
Sometimes I reread my APAH notes. Just because it was the best class ever and it helps me for Quiz Team. Art History is the senior girls’ thing. One of us took it in 10th grade, one is taking it now, and I took it last year.
I looked back at my Chem AA notes when doing my AP homework and when I was tutoring someone in Chem.
I sometimes stare longingly at my Calc BC notes. That class was awesome.</p>
<p>When you copy them, you should try to rephrase them into complete sentences and make sure you understand them. It’s a good way to learn.</p>
<p>But if your classes are already easy it might be unnecessarily time consuming.</p>
<p>I never look back at notes, I either study of tests or make new notes to study for finals.</p>
<p>I like writing notes. Doing that is a good time to learn the material. As for looking over the notes, I may skim an entire chapters worth of notes 10 minutes before a test. That’s all that’s needed, really.</p>
<p>I copy notes. For me, it’s an effective method to help memorize stuff.</p>
<p>Hell no! That’s so pointless! Just reread them and highlight important points or something.</p>
<p>You need to stop doing pointless stuff and use your time more effectively. If you don’t, you’re going to screw yourself over. Trust someone who has been there.</p>
<p>I think it’s pointless too. Practice writing good notes in the first place. I agree that the act of writing (i.e., copying your notes) is great for learning and retaining information, but I doubt doing it over and over again is an effective learning habit. Everyone’s different, though.</p>
<p>Instead of rewriting them, try quizzing yourself on the material and explaining it out loud. That way, you can still practice repeating the material, but now you don’t have to waste time writing it, and you’ll also force yourself to produce the material and see if you really know it.</p>
<p>I hate taking notes. I only do it in math</p>
<p>just too much work</p>
<p>I make really crap notes during the year, so I always have to rewrite them madly for all my subjects about a month before exams. I need to learn better note-taking skills.</p>
<p>I do take notes, but only for the maths and sciences, where having all the information concisely together in one spot is advantageous. I don’t bother with history and literature, since it would just be easier to get the info from the books themselves.</p>
<p>I keep notes and work separate, so I don’t need to copy them over.</p>
<p>The only time I take notes is if I know I’ll have to return the textbook or if I wish to condense an unnecessarily long book. Rewriting?? No. Except I lost my formula sheet for Physics and had to make a new one…an hour before finding the original.</p>
<p>No. Just no. Did it once; neatly copied 13 pages of notes only to realize that I retained none of it. My notes are only legible to myself through careful deciphering lol. But that’s good enough for me. As I go through my notes highlighting key points, I basically lecture to myself outloud, complete with hand motions and stuff. It works for me :P</p>
<p>No, but I type them because my handwriting sucks and I usually can’t read it >5-6 hours after I write…</p>