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There is no such thing as the perfect set of notes. It is the constant teardown and reconceptualisation of your notes that is helpful to your learning, rather than reading the perfect set of notes over and over again. Should you throw out your notes and start all over again?

If it’s your first time here I’m Jack Wang, a microbiologist, science educator, and in 2020 I was named the Australian University teacher of the year. I recently made a video going through 50 different study tips in 15 minutes (https://youtu.be/TZY1fhcymtw) What I didn’t have time to do in that video was to provide some order or hierarchy for the tips. Which ones should you think about first, and what works better at the start of the semester versus just before an exam? That’s what today’s video is for, the first in our new “Tips Digest” series. Episode 1 deconstructs study tips on note-taking in a bit more detail.

You can find out more about my work here: https://jackwang.com.au

0:00 Introduction
0:39 Re-reading is inefficient and ineffective
1:36 The Outline Method
2:23 The Cornell Method
3:51 Mind Maps
4:55 Speeding things up
6:46 Revisit and Reflect
8:11 Hand-written or typed?
9:11 One flaw with typed notes

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