Tip of the Week: Organizing Your Notes
Do you write out notes or type them up during class? What about while reading your textbooks? When you go back to your notes to study, you might find that some of your notes are difficult to read, that the stuff you really need to know is hard to find, or that the way you organized your notes on paper doesn’t lend itself to memorization. Organizing your notes into a condensed study packet is a great way to make the most of your notes. For this week’s required task, choose a class you really need to study for. Go through your handwritten or typed notes from lecture, discussion, and reading, and highlight the information that is most valuable to you (e.g. definitions or formulas you know will be on a test or ideas that you are still trying to make sense of). Type out or rearrange this information in a way that makes the most sense to you: an outline, bullet points, or even a narrative, depending on the type of class and the way you learn best. Print your notes and staple them together. You now have a condensed, easy-to-read study packet for your next test!
Complete at least 4 of the tasks below to finish this level. Tasks in bold are required. Collect signatures where indicated. Make sure to read all the directions for each task—no partial credit will be given.