<p>for the mentally retawded? -__-
do you seriously need a "3" X "5" piece of card stock to remember a single thing?</p>
<p>i can't handle not having the whole list of words/concepts in front of me to study from</p>
<p>They are messy and scatter all over the places. I hate them. One sheet of paper to study vocab with a crease in the middle works fine.</p>
<p>^ I KNOW RIGHT!</p>
<p>don’t you hate it when teachers make you do notecards? </p>
<p>in my english class last year, we have a vocab quiz every friday (10 words per week), and the girl in front of me ALWAYS made notecards for every single word. i was like <em>forehead to palm</em> what a ■■■■■■. the definitions were way too short for making notecards…waste of time and trees</p>
<p>(guilty of using notecards lol)
I think they are fine but I guess they aren’t for everyone.</p>
<p>had to do them for vocab class. in the time it took to make a notecard, you can learn the things on it :/</p>
<p>I use them to scribble down random pieces of information, not for studying.</p>
<p>nobody’s made me do vocab since middle school but i guess i’m lucky</p>
<p>Yeah. Notecards are stupid.</p>
<p>At the very most, I’ll use memorizable . com or something like that, i don’t remember.</p>
<p>They’re not useful for vocab (I have a metric ton of Latin notecards at which I have never looked), but I think they’re useful for writing down stuff like sp3 = tetrahedral regional, with one unshared pair = trigonal pyramid, with two unshared pairs = bent triatomic. Like, you would have sp3 and “with one and shared pair” and “with two unshared pairs” written on the front and the other stuff on the back.</p>
<p>I like notecards…</p>
<p>I like notecards too…
You don’t need them for vocab, but their visual format is helpful for learning other types of material, such as dates or nitpicky stuff</p>
<p>We had to do them for research papers (put some key information on each card, cite where you got it from). We had to turn in a minimum of 30 but were expected to do many more.</p>
<p>Needless to say I just looked up and cited random info, subsequently tossing the notecards in some corner, and then wrote the paper my way.</p>
<p>Anything related to writing down information is a waste of trees and time. Notecards suck.</p>
<p>no, you’re wrong</p>
<p>The only thing I use notacards for are orgo reactions.</p>
<p>"We had to do them for research papers (put some key information on each card, cite where you got it from). We had to turn in a minimum of 30 but were expected to do many more.</p>
<p>Needless to say I just looked up and cited random info, subsequently tossing the notecards in some corner, and then wrote the paper my way."</p>
<p>I did this last year and wrote my a paper instead. =P</p>
<p>last year for apush we had to do 500+ notecards, and elaborate on every definition.
i wrote them. put them away. and never took them out again, i don’t even know where they are.</p>
<p>got a 5 on the exam</p>
<p>For some things notecards are just silly. I need a visual for everything… I need to see how things relate.</p>
<p>What I hate more is when world language teachers give you their silly graphic organizers that are really just lists with blanks. A long list of words DOES NOT HELP ME AT ALL!! I need a graphical representation to be effective</p>
<p>Well sometimes the actual writing of the note-cards helps reinforce the information in itself.</p>
<p>Although I must agree that the one’s you have to do for research papers like jamesford mentioned are silly. Likewise, I wrote random info down. Handed them in never to refer to them ever again. </p>
<p>To memorize facts and vocab I understand, but to use to write a paper…I suppose you could call those types to be used for the “mentally retawded”…</p>
<p>Well, I like using them.</p>
<p>Even for vocab too.</p>