Going to lectures is vital, that attending them allows you
to gather knowledge and the fact that when you participate in that event, you
can learn a lot more by listening to the professor which definitely has some
knowledge to their subject area. The fact at the matter is that when you attend
a lecture, you would have to take relevant notes when listening but the most
important part of a lecture is when you listen and understand the lecturer
rather than taking every note down and going back to it and not understanding.
Even if you don’t take in all the notes, Essex University
has a unique way to go back to lectures. This is called ‘Listen Again’ and it
is used in a way that when a student misses a vital information during the lecture,
they would go back onto Moodle and listen again on the lecture that they have
attended or not. It is widely available to the student who is doing that
course.
There are many different styles of writing when taking in notes
and using it in revision but personally writing it down and re-citing it works
with me because of the fact that you can summarise a lot of topic areas by
taking key information and shrinking it down and then using flash cards to make
questions up.
