<p>Don't you just hate taking notes?</p>
<p>Honestly, sometimes they feel so pointless or other times, you take notes on what you deem necessary as you have good memory recall and don't need extensive notes but you tell your teacher that and he still wants you to take notes.</p>
<p>Or when the teacher says "Don't take notes on every sentence" but someone does it and they get extra credit for being "such an extensive note-taker".</p>
<p>For my AP World class we actually have to turn in our notes, which kills me. Notes don't help me. If I could just read the chapter and take the test I'd be fine. I have a brain like a sponge. But I never have time to sit down and read the chapter because I'm too busy taking notes, and, like I said, notes don't help me. :)</p>
<p>Notes are a hassle to have to take; however, I need to take notes. Most importantly, notes keep me focused and not nauseous, and I cannot digest information quickly. For that reason, I usually take notes and review everything at home.</p>
<p>I found myself doing worse if I actually take notes when I read. I am too busy writing down stuff instead of actually reading the chapter and learn it. I remember less when I read and take notes at the same time. And I sometimes can't even use the notes I took because my handwriting is bad.</p>
<p>But I like to take notes in class because those notes actually help me, and my teachers stops and give us time to write down notes.</p>
<p>I don't remember ever taking notes, I don't take notes now, and I never probably will (at least in high school).</p>
<p>People learn differently; in my case when I sleep all the information just sinks in better.</p>
<p>I don't mind notes, but teachers need to keep out of it. I take notes differently than the way most people do, and when we turn in our notebooks in some classes, I get marked off for that. Apparently, it means I "wasn't following along." IMHO, a test grade proves how well you can take notes or at least how well you can process material. AP tests don't grade your notebook; why should the teacher?</p>
<p>Funny enough, I've noticed adults using many note-taking skills developed in high school for quite resourceful purposes. Taking notes can be annoying, but it sure does help you further understand the material!</p>
<p>I take almost no notes in my high school classes. Last year I had to take notes in AP Euro even though I never used them. He did a binder check every quarter. </p>
<p>Honestly though, in college (dual enrollment program) I have to take so many notes. In Psych 101 and Governments of the World this summer all I did was take extensive notes and write down ALL the examples. Then I'd ace the tests. But in high school they are useless.</p>
<p>I write real fast so notetaking isn't a great hassle for me. I think I only review them the day before tests anyway.</p>
<p>Requiring them as a grade is ridiculous though... as if the teacher knows how we best organize ourselves. >:[</p>
<p>What a coincidence. I'm supposed to be taking notes for Euro right now.. instead I'm on CC. Surprise, surprise. I'm jealous of whoever gets extra credit for being an "extensive note-taker." That's like on tests when the teacher says to write ONE cause of the French revolution, but you write TWO in case the first one's not right, or something. But I don't get extra credit there.</p>
<p>I only have one teacher who requires notes...math class. And that doesn't really bother me, because I'd probably take notes in math anyway. </p>
<p>This year I barely take any notes... I occasionally take notes for physics and APUSH...I pretty much never take notes for Chinese, Spanish, or English (though I do annotate my books for English, if that counts)...there's really just no point.</p>
<p>I feel like I took more notes last year (sophomore)...I took notes for History, Math, Science, and occasionally for English...just because I really did need notes for those classes. (especially science and history)</p>
<p>I had t take notes in mymath class last yar and hated it, this year I'm thinking about starting though.</p>
<p>What bugged me the most was that in middle school I had a teacher that graded us on notebooks for every unit. Not only were they graded in the required order things were in (This bugged me because, for all she knows putting different papers together would help me be better organized.) but they were graded on neatness. I'm not a "neat" person. I need clutter. My grade would always be docked because there was an extra line on my paper or the corner was torn. It was horrid.</p>
<p>I take really extensive notes, perhaps the most extensive of all the students, in my Human Geography and Art History classes and I'm consistently among the top or the top student in them. I enjoy it and I really don't know what else I would do. Besides, it often means I don't have to pay as much attention when reading the text.
I take pretty good notes in Calculus and I think it helps me a lot.</p>
<p>Rewriting my notes helps a lot, actually. Just taking them doesn't really help me, but writing them over with charts and sidenotes and stuff gets it to stick in my mind for those teachers who basically just require you to be a textbook.</p>
<p>What kind of an awful school gives credit or extra credit for taking notes? Wow.</p>
<p>Cornell.</p>
<p>That's all I have to say. ;D</p>
<p>i love taking notes, mostly i love writing in pen and doing blind contour drawings of people in class, but if i write something down, i dont have to study it later</p>
<p>I love taking notes in class... but then again, I also make taking notes fun (for me, at least).</p>
<p>Note-taking is so useful. It's like double-processing the information for me! And it's especially helpful reviewing them the night before a test... I also have an obsession with writing different categories of information in different colors..</p>
<p>I try and avoid taking notes whenever possible =] I can't stand taking notes on stuff I already know.</p>