- Read the material once first (Pre-read)
- Note down any questions you have and things you don’t understand
- In the margins, on post its, etc.
- Find solutions to these questions – go to teachers, friends, internet
- Make detailed notes
- Don’t write things you already know
- Use different methods based on the subject (Biology = diagrams
- Condense the notes
- Review. Review. Review.
- During a study session
- Avoid easy, unimportant info that you already know
- How to tell that you’ve really understood something?
- When you can answer ALL the end of topic questions
- If you don’t struggle with the QuestionBank questions
- Don’t rely on your notes at all
ALLIE DUNIN 