Study Skills - Lecture Notetaking
After Class
- Rewrite your notes within 24 hours or you will forget everything you learned in class and will have to spend study time to relearn it.
- Follow these steps of the modified Cornell Note-Taking System:
- Draw a line 3" from the left margin of the paper.
- Write key words, concepts, processes, and questions from your notes or the text to the left of the line.
- Define words and concepts, explain processes and answer questions to the right of the line, using your own words.
- As you finish writing each page, cover the right hand side and test yourself.
- Check off what you know. Mark what you need to spend more time learning. Speak with your instructor or make an appointment in the Learning Center for suggestions on how to learn and remember complex material.
- Make up note cards to quiz yourself. Practice reciting the answers out loud, without looking at the cards.
- Reread your notes before the next lecture.
Your notes will look like this after rewriting using the modified Cornell Note-Taking System:
| Date, page # | ||
| Vocabulary words
Key terms Important people |
Define | Draw |
| Concepts
Processes |
Explain |
Concept map
Diagram |
| ?'s from text
?'s from class My questions |
Answer |
Diagram
Draw |