I was in the supermarket and a young man who works there is currently in University. He has those exams every so often and the usual terror. I told him what to do, and hopefully he will follow this advice. Trust me, this works.
When you go to class you take your notes however you take them. But when class is over you transcribe them, By Hand into what I call your ‘Beat Book’.
This is a special hard covered book. It could be an exercise, a diary, but it is hard covered, because it is going to get a lot of use.
You transcribe slowly, reading your notes, adding your homework and any other information. You use your best handwriting, plus… and this is important… some flourishes, some underlines, something to catch your eye.
You might write a ‘G’ with a special kind of slat or write your ‘i’ with a little circle instead of a dot. You are going for artful, elaborate, different.
Every evening, you rewrite your notes, you reread them, and every week you reread your Beat Book. Often you reread it, out loud. You might add a few words, even clip in some information. And you say it, and listen to your voice saying it.
Your Beat Book should be so complete that just before Finals the only book you read is that Beat Book. You don’t need the text or the library. Everything in in that one book. The book you wrote.
When you are in the exam room, you will recall what you wrote; you’ll recall because of the artsy-craftsy way you wrote that T or S.
Unlike a printed page were every letter is exactly the same no matter how many times it appears, your letters are different. And it is that uniqueness which will make you remember.
You might use a bit of colour… but only a bit because if you underline too much it will blur. If you circle too many things in red, it will blur. What doesn’t blur is that unique way you wrote that word.
Your Beat Book will be remember because it is unique. It is like seeing one beer bottle among a dozen milk bottles,
In that Exam room, everything in your Beat Book will come back to you, even if you don’t have a photographic memory.
Further, having heard the information, rewritten the information, and constantly reread the information you have actually learned it. You aren’t cramming, you aren’t memorising, you are learning the work.
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Noting down in the classroom and again rewriting with all decorations and necessary techniques using circles in place of a dot, underlying the important information may be useful to get it back into your memory during an examination may be a good idea.But it works in lower classes only. Once you catch up the steps one by one in the ladder of education system it becomes a herculean task which needs covering various subjects.
You're wrong. It works in Law School, which is pretty much at the very top of the hill when it comes to hard subjects, a lot of information, and needing to think. It works.
All the techniques used in school studies help to keep in mind all that have been learnt in the process of teaching.The use of personal diction is not ruled out.At times the use of symbols and unique writings help only the student.
I would not have written this item if I did not know, FOR A FACT that it works.
Note-taking also works well for me. And even when I'm done with school, I still do a lot of note-taking for research and article writing. Handwriting and copying important lines helps reinforce my understanding of the text.
The act of writing, by hand is beyond typing when it comes to imprinting in the brain.
I do that when I was in college. I rewrite all that I have taken notes in the classes I attended.
Then after rewriting , I would read them aloud. That way, I am already at least putting them in my mind.
Like you said, I put highlights in those I think are important. My highlights are of different colors. Color coding as it is said.
Pink would be the most important items and should be memorized.
Green would be those that need not be memorized but should be understood on how they are like that.
I also take time to relax after I have reviewed what I have written. I listen to music after that, or watch a nice show or eat.
You know exactly what you are doing. The method works.
I need not to take exam anymore for the time being and the past ten years , I only busy with napkin and breastfeeding, haha!
Anyway, I lovｅ ａｎｄ ｍｉｓｓ those study time when I was a student, reading and studying is the most enjoyable task in my life.
I might go back to school for further study in the future. But, e-learning is more common nowadays!
Even if it is elearning you want your Beat Book, you want to sit outside on the beach or in the garden, and relax and learn.
The best way for me to study was to re-write everything i wrote in class. The more i wrote, the more i memerized. I would sometimes just read the material various times to memerize but it was easier to memerize when i would write it down.
Your method is also a good way to. If you have a specific way to write things down that will help you learn then it becomes easier to study also.
When i was still in school i didn't study that hard because i was a fast learner and i would just re-write my notes for coleagues and that would be my study session.