Tips for lesson notes and revision
Next up is lesson notes and revision tips 📝
As mentioned in the last post, there is a lot of information to manage, so it’s important that you find an effective way to make notes in your lessons, and utilise the tools your tutors provide.
💚 During lessons I found it very useful to annotate worksheets, rather than trying to write down everything that was said. By doing this I could keep focus in lessons and didn’t have to spend my time trying to keep up with writing instead of paying attention. For any additional notes made I used a note book with subject dividers to keep each topic separate.
💚 Using these rough notes and annotations, along with additional information from textbooks, I created my ‘neat notes’. For me this is a great way to revise as the repetition and re-reading helped the information to stick in my mind. I also added diagrams and sticky labels to make the notes more visually appealing and to help key terms pop out from the rest of the notes.
💚I’m a bit of a stationary nerd 😅 so there’s nothing worse for me to write with a horrible, scratchy pen 😂 I need a nice smooth roller ball pen so that writing for long periods is just a little more comfortable 🤷🏼♀️ I also love using colours! Colour coding your notes is a great way to show which notes are part of the same subject.
💚The use of colours isn’t just limited to pens and pencils; I colour coded my sticky notes and used washi tape to brighten my notes up 🌈
💚 For extra revision I condensed my notes down in to either bullet points or flashcards. This can be quite time consuming with re-writing notes as well but for me works well for revising.
💚Another tip for remembering terms, prefixes and suffixes is to have an ‘A-Z’ notebook to jot them all down. This was suggested by one of our tutors and is a great idea if you have time to fill it out.
💚Ideally an hour of revision a day is useful to keep on top of revision, without having to cram everything in last minute. In the two weeks prior to exams I made a timetable to make sure all topics were refreshed, and to focus on the topics I was unsure of.
These methods are what I found best for myself so may not work for everyone ☺️
As mentioned in the last post, there is a lot of information to manage, so it’s important that you find an effective way to make notes in your lessons, and utilise the tools your tutors provide.
💚 During lessons I found it very useful to annotate worksheets, rather than trying to write down everything that was said. By doing this I could keep focus in lessons and didn’t have to spend my time trying to keep up with writing instead of paying attention. For any additional notes made I used a note book with subject dividers to keep each topic separate.
💚 Using these rough notes and annotations, along with additional information from textbooks, I created my ‘neat notes’. For me this is a great way to revise as the repetition and re-reading helped the information to stick in my mind. I also added diagrams and sticky labels to make the notes more visually appealing and to help key terms pop out from the rest of the notes.
💚I’m a bit of a stationary nerd 😅 so there’s nothing worse for me to write with a horrible, scratchy pen 😂 I need a nice smooth roller ball pen so that writing for long periods is just a little more comfortable 🤷🏼♀️ I also love using colours! Colour coding your notes is a great way to show which notes are part of the same subject.
💚The use of colours isn’t just limited to pens and pencils; I colour coded my sticky notes and used washi tape to brighten my notes up 🌈
💚 For extra revision I condensed my notes down in to either bullet points or flashcards. This can be quite time consuming with re-writing notes as well but for me works well for revising.
💚Another tip for remembering terms, prefixes and suffixes is to have an ‘A-Z’ notebook to jot them all down. This was suggested by one of our tutors and is a great idea if you have time to fill it out.
💚Ideally an hour of revision a day is useful to keep on top of revision, without having to cram everything in last minute. In the two weeks prior to exams I made a timetable to make sure all topics were refreshed, and to focus on the topics I was unsure of.
These methods are what I found best for myself so may not work for everyone ☺️