<p>With taking more advanced high school classes (AP Physics B especially), I'm beginning to find that "straight forward" reading is inefficient. It's not enough to simply read through the text.</p>
<p>To the smart students out there, how do you approach your textbooks? Do you focus on individual sentences to pull out the important parts? Do you read entire paragraphs before stopping to analyze and fully comprehend that paragraph's content? </p>
<p>What approach has worked best for you in studying efficiently and effectively?</p>
<p>How do you go about actively linking everything together to build a web of interconnected concepts rather then separate, unconnected ones?</p>
<p>I plan to major in Biology or Human Biology, Health, and Society, or a similar major depending on which colleges accept me. For the courses in these majors, I feel it is especially important to be able to great a effective and quickly recalled web of details and concepts.</p>
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<p>For taking notes, would my current approach be fine or might there be better options?</p>
<p>In my current economics class, there is no textbook to use and the students only rely on taking notes. I take down those notes then I retype them at home, online in a clearer, and more concise format and organization. Is this pretty much the best approach in this situation for note taking?</p>