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From: sjh@gauss.math.purdue.edu (Steve Holmes)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Student preparedness
Summary: psuedo survey response on note taking
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Date: 4 Jan 89 21:11:25 GMT
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Reply-To: sjh@helicon.math.purdue.edu.UUCP (Steve Holmes)
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I have always been bothered by this note-taking business. I was never a really
good student anyway and whenver I tried to 'do better' by taking better
notes (i.e. more) I actually got less of the material. I couldn't keep up 
with the lecturer and I missed what was being said while I was writing.  
It took me a long time to realize this and I was actually almost out of 	
school when I finally did.  And the notes were almost worthless to use for 
review. Now (back in school again) I write down just the essentials and listen
to and try to think about the lecture.  But I still do take some notes.  The
notes I take now are much more valuable at review time.