With lectures, it is imperative that you attend as many as
you can with a high level of promptness. This ensures that you can get the most
from it as well as having an opportunity to ask questions from the lecturer
when the body of the lecture is complete. While having access to a friend's notes can be
good for enhancing your own, it does not work as a replacement for your own attendance.
At the University of Essex, the system "Listen Again" will allow you
to watch lectures that have already been given. While this is a useful tool for
enhancing your notes after the lecture, it is not as effective as attending the
lecture yourself. This is due to many factors, the largest being how easy it is
to become distracted when using a computer.
There are many different styles of note taking and different
types work for different people. There is no wrong method as long as you can
get the information you need and can use it at a later date easily. For myself, mind maps often work when I need
to outline my notes quickly. It is often important to re-write some parts of
your notes, or summarize them as this helps you learn the information and make
it more concise for later use.
For revision, simply reading information will not help as
much as re-writing the information along with practicing where possible.
Reading is useful and needed but is not effective on its own.
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