Chapter 11 - How to Take and Study Notes

How can you best use your notes to study for a quiz or test?

Quiz yourself with the summary questions you wrote in your notes.

What is the 80/20 Power Strategy for taking Effective notes?

Read the textbook before class

When taking notes, how do you know what's important enough to write down?

Reading the textbook provides valuable clues about what's important in the lecture.

Why should you fold your paper and take notes on the right 2/3 of the page?

The left 1/3 of the page is for creating summary questions from your notes

How much time should you spend creating summary questions from your notes?

10 minutes

What is the "80/20 Power Strategy" for studying your notes?

Create summary questions from your notes, when you review your notes after class.

All of the following are steps in the "Listening & Comprehension" model except:

Describe your point of view to others

Why should you keep your textbook open during a lecture?

While the teacher is talking you can make connections to the images and captions.

When should you reread your notes?

Within 24 hours after class

In math, "studying" mostly means...

doing practice problems.