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I recently stumbled across a new system of note taking on wikipedia which looks interesting. It’s called the Cornell Note Taking System because it was originally developed and used by a professor there.
The basic idea behind it is to summarize as you go:
I can imagine this would make it easy to go back and study, reviewing the keywords on the left and sentence on each page.
But I think this might be effective for another reason: it boils down to the psychology technique of “chunking” (which is also discussed in our eBook, 10 Ways To Raise Your Grades By Studying Smarter, Not Harder). The human brain isn’t good at memorizing more than about 7 similar items with any distinction. But if you can group items, then you can remember 7 groups of 7. Further grouping is basically endless. This is the technique used by people in memorization marathons where they will remember a sequence of thousands of random 1′s and 0′s, or similar feats.
So what do you think, will it work? Do any of you use this technique already?
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Lisa
22|Jun|2009 1I used this method when studying for my teaching recertification test. It was helpful in helping me remember all the researchers of childhood psychology, terms and so much more (you know, all the stuff you learn in college and then never need to use once you leave!). It was tricky at first as I wasn’t used to study this way, but once I got the hang of it, I loved it! I was wishing I had known this method when I was taking tests in high school and college.
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Brian Armstrong Reply:
June 22nd, 2009 at 4:45 am
Great, thanks for sharing your experience Lisa.
Brian
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JR
26|Jun|2009 2This was the required method of taking notes in middle/high school. I felt like my paper was never large enough to fit both answers and questions, and I really didn’t like the method in general. But, I find that taking notes tends not to work for me anyway.
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Brian Armstrong Reply:
June 26th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Interesting…I know what you mean, as an audio learner, I preferred to (mostly) just listen to lectures and take sparse notes.
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Christian Stapfer
24|Dec|2010 3My attempt to use the Cornell Note-taking method was shipwrecked rather quickly by the fixed limits on the cues and summary sections. Sometimes there was too much room for cues and summary, sometimes there was not enough of it…
So at some point I figured that there really was no need to keep these three, certainly quite useful components, on the same page. Instead I kept cues and summaries on separate pages and used a numbering scheme to cross-reference the three now separate components. (Also, I tend to use the raw notes from a lecture only as a very temporary device in order to produce much improved rewritten lecture notes – with cues and summary, but on different pages.)
True, the lookup from summary or cues to notes takes more time, but for me it was a trade-off worth making.
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производители металлоконструкций
18|Aug|2011 4Звучить добре, мені подобається читати ваш блог, просто були вибрані ним;)
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michellemaisonet
30|Apr|2012 5very helpful thanks :)
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Johnny
04|Jul|2012 6I am not good in maths and was all time suffering in doing homework, but ten my friend recommend me to visit http://www.homeworkhelpforme.com and now its so much easy to do homework not even for maths but for all other subjects too.
thanks.
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MeerkatMac
07|Sep|2012 7Cornell Notes is now available on the iPad – http://www.applgasm-apps.com/cornell_notes.html If you were looking for a reason why you should have an iPad for school, well this is it. Hundreds of thousands of ’A’ students can attest to the success of using this note taking methodology. Now it’s conveniently available in an easy-to-use iPad app that’s much more efficient than paper and pencil.
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