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How do you create good study notes
RuiAce:
--- Quote from: conic curve on September 20, 2016, 08:42:06 am ---I have a kinda silly question to ask, but is it alright to make 5 copies of notes on one module of either phys or chem (i.e. since there are 4 modules in physics and 4 modules in chemistry, I'm probably going to have 40 sets of notes altogether)
I'll explain, 1 set of notes is an indepth set of notes used to cover every single dotpoint to the level of depth required-for more understanding, one set of notes is a "summary notes" a shortened set of notes, one set of notes will be a "weaknesses notes" used for pinpointing my weaknesses, one set of notes will be for "concept maps/linking" for linking concepts together so then it's easier to draw links between certain concepts and answer those extended reponse questions and my final set of notes will be "extended response notes" where I will be making up certain extended reponse questions with a marking criteria and will be writing up responses in order to get more marks for the extended reponse questions
WHat does everyone think of this? Yes I know it's a lot and a little bit crazy but I think I will benefit from this, rewriting my notes 5 times in one module, 40 times throughout the year
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Nothing wrong with it but a) if you do so you need to get them done ASAP because otherwise you completely drain out valuable time spent on past papers and b) whether or not you actually use all of them is also an important question. Take the weakness one - I just annotated my summary notes to indicate where my weaknesses were.
Also I never had notes explicitly for concept linking. I did that myself in my head
conic curve:
--- Quote from: RuiAce on September 20, 2016, 08:51:39 am ---Nothing wrong with it but a) if you do so you need to get them done ASAP because otherwise you completely drain out valuable time spent on past papers and b) whether or not you actually use all of them is also an important question. Take the weakness one - I just annotated my summary notes to indicate where my weaknesses were.
Also I never had notes explicitly for concept linking. I did that myself in my head
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I'm probably going to have to make it from 5 to 4 then. 1 will be more "super detailed info", one will be for "summary", one will be for weaknesses and one will be for concept linking and extended reponses (as concept linking is crucial for extended responses)
I'll probably have 32 notes by the end of the HSC then.
I thought of another idea, if I did super detailed notes with some summaries highlighted there (instead of having two different set of notes i.e. super detailed notes and one set of notes for summaries), one for weaknesses and one for concept linking (as it links quite well to extended responses) would that be better than having 5 sets of notes?
I'm not sure because I feel every single bit of slightest detail is important as it can help you gain one extra mark in the HSC
Would probably save me a lot of time
ssarahj:
--- Quote from: conic curve on September 20, 2016, 09:08:07 am ---I'm probably going to have to make it from 5 to 4 then. 1 will be more "super detailed info", one will be for "summary", one will be for weaknesses and one will be for concept linking and extended reponses (as concept linking is crucial for extended responses)
I'll probably have 32 notes by the end of the HSC then.
I thought of another idea, if I did super detailed notes with some summaries highlighted there (instead of having two different set of notes i.e. super detailed notes and one set of notes for summaries), one for weaknesses and one for concept linking (as it links quite well to extended responses) would that be better than having 5 sets of notes?
I'm not sure because I feel every single bit of slightest detail is important as it can help you gain one extra mark in the HSC
Would probably save me a lot of time
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Feel free to do that all that if you think its going to help your understanding, however a lot of time can be saved by having a solid set of notes and then doing past papers and practise questions which help to link concepts, identify weaknesses and practise extended responses all in one. If you mark/edit practise questions you do and then keep them (maybe even put them in a nice display folder) you'll be able to look back and learn from them as the year goes on.
Succinct summaries (like the technique Jake recommends) would probably be more useful towards Trials next year so you will have copious amounts of time to figure out what works for you.
One mark in the HSC exam is not worth 32 sets of notes, if I was you I'd go insane by next year.
conic curve:
--- Quote from: ssarahj on September 20, 2016, 10:00:27 am ---Feel free to do that all that if you think its going to help your understanding, however a lot of time can be saved by having a solid set of notes and then doing past papers and practise questions which help to link concepts, identify weaknesses and practise extended responses all in one. If you mark/edit practise questions you do and then keep them (maybe even put them in a nice display folder) you'll be able to look back and learn from them as the year goes on.
Succinct summaries (like the technique Jake recommends) would probably be more useful towards Trials next year so you will have copious amounts of time to figure out what works for you.
One mark in the HSC exam is not worth 32 sets of notes, if I was you I'd go insane by next year.
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Thanks Ssarahj
I thought that in one module, I'd have 1 set of notes which was used for indepth info and for understanding (with highlighted summaries so then I can have a summarised set of notes as well as an indepth set of notes all in one), a weaknesses notes and a concept maps and extended response notes
Before yr 12 starts, I will be making my notes which are indepth and the concept maps/extended response notes and then apply them to past/practice papers
Throughout year 12, I will be including relevant summary notes in my indepth notes and will be making my weaknesses notes throughout the year to ensure I do not forget relevant content throughout the year
Also how do we buy the ATARNOTES notes? Like are they sold at UTS?
ssarahj:
--- Quote from: conic curve on September 20, 2016, 10:28:38 am ---Thanks Ssarahj
I thought that in one module, I'd have 1 set of notes which was used for indepth info and for understanding (with highlighted summaries so then I can have a summarised set of notes as well as an indepth set of notes all in one), a weaknesses notes and a concept maps and extended response notes
Before yr 12 starts, I will be making my notes which are indepth and the concept maps/extended response notes and then apply them to past/practice papers
Throughout year 12, I will be including relevant summary notes in my indepth notes and will be making my weaknesses notes throughout the year to ensure I do not forget relevant content throughout the year
Also how do we buy the ATARNOTES notes? Like are they sold at UTS?
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You can buy them online just click on the Shop part at the top of this website! :)
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