Jemma Spike

And they will hope that they will remember it and they will probably get a nice 75 on the test.

Here's the technique that I would use instead.

first obviously still take notes but take notes as if you are writing the textbook yourself with chapters with headings with formulas with visuals and keep it all in the same document on your computer pretend you are literally the author someone is going to your notes are going to be what informs the next cohort so you want to make it look good you want to make it

very, not complex, but in depth, and you want to structure it so that it's coherent.

When it comes time to study for an exam or midterm, whatever it is, up the font size of that document to 16, double space the whole document, print out those notes, staple them together, or bind them as if they are a book.

This is what I always did.

I wish that I had a picture of what this looks like, I just feel like it looks so much better visually so you can understand it, but your notes should almost look like a movie manuscript, like a big bound book.

Now, we're still going to use those tried and true recall or study methods.

Step one, obviously, you have to go through and highlight, and I know I said that's not an effective method, I know.

But it's just stage one of integration.

You obviously just need to know what information is crucial.

Stage two, I want you to go through and in those lines, because you've double fonted it, in those margins, I want you to write text, interesting tidbits, facts, underline, draw pictures around your notes, make them really personal.

Step three, read through your notes again and tell yourself the story of what you're reading.

by applying it to something you see in your own life or in the world.

For example, if you are studying, I don't know, psychopathology, and the section you are reviewing is on schizophrenia,

write out the symptoms like you're describing a movie character or you're telling the story of someone's behavior that you know or somebody in the news or somebody yeah or a character in a movie if you're studying systems of voting or politics and you have a big chunk of notes that are

All very theoretical about voting systems.

Imagine your friends as candidates in each of those voting systems.

Any kind of personal association is going to work amazingly.

The final step is to take your notes, take your research and do one of three things.