<p>What style do you generally use? Cornell? Outline? A variation thereupon? Different styles for different classes?</p>
<p>I'm looking to improve the way that I take notes, as I currently scrawl everything down in hopelessly long, disorganized strings of bullets and sub-bullets.</p>
<p>@Druval I just scrawl everything down.
I rarely read my notes. I’m waay better off just reading from the book. Plus the teachers talk fast and I write slow and sloppy.</p>
<p>I just scrawl down stuff like “This will BE on the test,” or “This is a shortcut, it is NOT in your textbook,”</p>
<p>I usually try to just generally keep things organized and make sure everything important gets in. I often end up rewriting and reorganizing my notes as part of my studying anyway.</p>
<p>use my cellphone to take pictures of the blackboard</p>
<p>Draw pictures and play games on my calculator.</p>
<p>I don’t take notes. Period.</p>
<p>^same. everythings in the textbook anyways. unless the teacher specifically says that it isn’t, then i scribble down somewhere. </p>
<p>but honestly, everythings in the textbook. sometimes i feel going to class is a waste of time because all the teachers do is summarize whats in the book, which you could easily do on your own</p>
<p>Yeah don’t take notes either. so useless and too much physical exercise.</p>
<p>Don’t ever use the textbooks in my school. Most teachers use PowerPoints, so we just take notes off of that. Just copy what’s on there. So, we have everything we ever need to study :)</p>
<p>I don’t take notes, especially not handwritten notes. I am so impatient with my hands, when it comes to writing. They write so slowly! Also my handwriting is a mess because of this impatience, so I can’t read my own writing. Also I’m disorganized and don’t have notebooks, and even when I did, I flipped to random pages and went completely out of order. I sometimes still scrawl things impulsively though, if something seems particularly important.</p>
<p>I write everything down, then I rewrite the notes neater and with some fancy highlighting.
I don’t do cornell, I short hand, use arrows and bullets and yah</p>
<p>I use outline. I never study my notes, but I find that writing stuff down keeps my mind from wandering and often during tests I remember stuff by remembering what that section of notes looked like.</p>
<p>I rarely take notes. I don’t study from them anyway; it’s easier to study from the textbook b/c I can actually read it. If I take notes I find I am too concerned with getting down all the appropriate information to actually concentrate on what the teacher is saying. Listening to the teacher reinforces the concepts that I’ve read in the textbook and is a way of studying for me. If I take notes I lose that.</p>
<p>I do take notes in math, because I don’t have to actually write that much.</p>
<p>I don’t - not in class, anyways. I find it easier to focus if I’m just listening, rather than trying to look between the PowerPoint (the school’s favored method of presenting information), the teacher, the board, and still write legibly (my handwriting is terrible).</p>
<p>I do, however, go over the book after class (sometimes before, if I’m feeling particularly motivated) and take notes on things I’m still fuzzy on or don’t understand. Bubble maps and concept charts are my best friends, particularly in history and science. =)</p>
<p>Well, I take notes for my history class. I do it by doing a question, answer format. This does take a large amount of time to do though. Sometimes 30 pages means 7 hours of notes. However, I do remember practically everything from the book by doing it.</p>
<p>Condense whatever the teacher has to say or writes on the board. Major condescending. Pictures are good.</p>
<p>When I have to take notes from a book for HW (which is a completely pointless assignment imo), I paraphrase the most important sentence from each paragraph (usually it’s the topic sentence - go figure) or write down the bolded vocab terms.</p>