Take Note: Tips To Taking Notes For Academic Success

It is essential to take notes during class and while you are studying. Notes are a great way of reviewing for tests. Notes also provide you with a reference to the material while working on homework assignments.

You should take notes during every class. It doesn’t matter whether you are covering important topics or not. At the very least you should keep track of what the professor covered in class that day and if any important announcements were made.

Here are some tips for taking notes:

If you are using a laptop, use a note-taking program to help you out.

• OneNote: This is the note-taking program that is included in Microsoft office. Very helpful but lacks some of the features that Evernote has.
• Evernote: This is the best note-taking program on the market. I have used it extensively throughout college. It allows you to easily organize all of your notes and automatically syncs them across all of your devices, along with making them available online.

If you prefer pen and paper to take notes:

• Use a notebook for every class. This will help you stay organized and if you happen to lose a notebook you won’t be losing the notes for all of your classes.
• Write clearly. This is very important because the purpose of taking notes is to allow you to review the information. If you can’t read your own handwriting you are not taking good notes.
• After class review and transfer your notes to Evernote. You can type them up and add things to your notes which will help you review the material or you can scan them and upload them.