Imagine this, you are on your way to write the exam and you notice
all the students opening their notes and studying,
well you also have your notes ready and you’re confident that you will score better marks! Fast
forward to your result day, and you notice that your marks are extremely poor!!! Shocked right?
Well let me tell you what went wrong. It was when you were studying from your notes. that’ right!
See as students we tend to mke some errors while taking notes
and in this video we will help you in understanding what those mistakes are,
and this will definitely help you in scoring better grades in your exams!
Writing without Listening
This has happened to all of us at some point! We have a habit of writing things
down without fully understanding the point. While this practice provides more content,
it also creates far more confusion when we revise. It becomes more jumbled when we are too
preoccupied with taking notes from presentations rather than listening to the speaker.
Highlighting Text Instead of Writing
Taking notes is not the same as highlighting text. It is necessary to create a suitable
summary of that material. Students frequently underline or highlight portions
that they feel necessary . well, this makes sense while you’re doing it sometimes,
but doing it every time, that is highlighting every point might create confusion to you.
Making a list of everything
Simply put, don't do it! It is one of the most common errors made by students.
They frequently take notes on everything the teacher says, but this has little influence.
The better way is to take down important points and key words and later elaborate on these lines.
Out of Topic Notes
One of the major mistakes that students also make is they write all the unwanted material,
sometimes not even related to the specific topic, without understanding the context.
This creates more confusion and also it becomes difficult to grasp the information
Scribbling
Understanding what you've written is a necessary ability for avoiding note-taking errors.
It is a terrible idea to just scribble down everything from your textbook
or class lectures since it does not include any learning. Students frequently fail to take
down key information and end up filling their notebooks with lengthy summaries.
A simple way of tackling this problem is making use of the bullet point technique. This method
is when you form keyword, and then explain those keywords one by one without creating confusion.
Different subject, same method
Many students make the mistake of following the same note taking method for all the subjects and
then fail in the exam and wonder what went wrong, well, as you know that every subject is different
and not all the subjects have the same method of studying or even note taking.
Hence always remember that you need to adapt to every subject differently .
Skipping what you don’t understand
Many a times while in class, we tend to write notes without clearing our
doubts and then when we sit to study, we are completely lost hence to tackle this problem,
is while you’re taking notes in class clear your doubt with the teacher
then and there make your notes, this will help you later when you study through those notes.