How to take GOOD notes.?

Take down the main points and summarize as much as you can, but make sure you can still understand what you wrote!

Write down what you think is important to know and also what the teacher stresses because that will most likely be on a test

good luck!

There are many sites and books that can help teach you good notetaking and study skills, but here are a few suggestions:

- For textbooks, you need to make yourself a study sheet for each chapter that is highly condensed - try for the front and back of one loose leaf page. Start by defining each word in bold in your own words. Then, look through the diagrams, charts and photos and write down the "take home message" of each important one. For instance, you do not need to take note of a photo of Isaac Newton, but you do need to fully understand a diagram showing how mitosis occurs. Redraw the diagram into your study sheet.

Next, make an outline of the chapter and fill it it with only the most important information. (A timeline might work better for a history book.) Look at each section or paragraph and try to figure out what the most important point was.

- You can do some similar with novels, though you want to condense the whole book into maybe two pages. At the end of each chapter, write a 1 paragraph summary of what happened. Make note of what characters appeared. Skim back over the chapter and look for themes that may recur throughout the novel - colors, natural elements, animals, etc. Try to think of what meaning those themes could have. It may be nothing, or it may be significant.

The goal of note-taking is to rewrite information so you can remember it better; and to have something condensed to study, rather than trying to absorb everything all over again.

In class:

Write down anything the teacher writes on the board, or repeats often. This is a signal that it will be on a test/project. After class go over you notes and copy them in outline form (type them if you can) this way by the end of the term you will have a few pages of organized notes rather than a bunch of chaos.

In textbooks:

copy definitions and diagrams (in your own words so you understand them) Also after reading the section, summarize it in a few sentences. Again, go back and type the notes so they're cleaner and easier to read.

Novels:

Make a small time line of events in the story (1 sentence per event) make a page dedicated to characters and overview each character. List relationships to other characters. Also make a page dedicated to symbols, or include it with your time line. Remember to include page numbers. Authors like to include symbols in their texts. For example the color red may come up frequently as a tool to foreshadow something bad is going to happen. Pick these out. your teachers will love you for that.

I write down the header of the paragraph or the main idea of the paragraph. Then I write down what is going to be useful and on a test... just write down a little bit of the paragraph and if you think you might need it all just make up neumonics... ex: Prokaryotes do not have a nucleus. So PN for no nucleus.they get me through a lot of tests..

A good way of thinking is to cut your notes in half: Let's say you have 5 pages that you have to write notes from. Only write enough notes that fill up 2.5 pages. Cut the information pages in half.

Write down key words. Names, dates, places. Paraphrase things. You won't retain key facts if you write down a bunch of useless info. Omit information that is repetitive.

ok buy some highlighters it sounds really stupid but as soon as you start highlitghting thingd you will want to use them more and more and it will be in colour so you will learn the notes as they will stand out

u can note down d important lines/pharse n tell him wen he ask fr it

u might be nt telling him d important pharse which he wants

lol now we cant teach you to take notes... but yea.. lol imagine reading through your long *** notes ... that would take forever.. just compress it.. put it ina few words..if you cant just ask your teach to show you an example

find a chick who takes "good" notes and make photo copies