<p>I know that when I was in high school, my school REQUIRED all students to take Cornell Notes. Being the rebel that I was/am, I refused. I simply don't understand how someone can tell another person, who may learn completely different than others, the format in which they HAVE to take notes. I have always taken notes. My notes are always neat and organized and well-formatted. Does any of your high schools absolutely require you to take notes Cornell-style, or any other way, for that matter?</p>
<p>Also, any tips on note-taking and how you take notes? :)</p>
<p>My teachers don’t care whether you take notes or not. They say it’s not their responsibility to learn the concepts, you are. I change up how I write my notes almost all the time. I do agree with you that people should study/take notes that make them understand and learn the concepts. 2 of my teachers have “note checks” where they check if you’re taking notes. If you don’t you’ll lose like 5 or 10 points on participation I think.</p>
<p>My teachers in high school didn’t have notechecks, but my middle school teachers did, I remember. My high school teachers simply watched to make sure everyone was taking notes. They stressed the importance of us taking “Cornell Notes,” in case the principal or administrator walked in and asked to see our notes, but I never cooperated and when someone asked to see my notes, I told them my feelings about their stupid rule and was never reprimanded for it. I’m sure the teacher was, though, for not “enforcing” the rule.</p>
<p>I just had to google what Cornell notes were…</p>
<p>The last time I had to use those was in middle school.</p>
<p>That’s silly your school requires you to take notes that way. I’ve just developed my own style over the years, but it really just varies by subject. I’m a big fan of circling or underlining key words. I don’t really like highlighters because they bleed through the paper too much.</p>
<p>My style varies by subject. For English, it’s usually just bullets with underlining/circles. I always put a header and skip lines for each new topic/chapter though. History/humanities type classes I usually use more of an outline approach and outline the textbook chapters. Math is just copying down examples.
It really just varies. But in all subjects, organization is key.</p>
<p>Also, something I do mostly in English/History type classes is take my notes in one color of pen then write notes during class in a different color. Right now for the book we’re reading in English, I’ve been taking notes in blue pen and then adding in stuff around my notes in black. It really helps because I have both my notes and stuff said in class in the same place but still distinguished from each other which I like.</p>
<p>None of my teachers have ever really forced us to take notes? They highly discourage not taking notes though.</p>
<p>Im in 10th grade and my teachers still make us take notes the way they want. It really irritates me, I even complained that it was our notes and we should take them our way (they didnt like that very much). But they still do note checks and such.</p>