@@johndelmo1213 if you an incapable of doing so likely your teacher is going at too fast of a pace either because of poor time management on their part or because the syllabus is just that difficult. (given that you weren't distracted, which we all do often) In all of these cases, it doesn't hurt to just ask them to repeat what they said.
The "don't take notes" thing was really effective, in an entire school year I have not once stroked a line from my pen and got higher grades than usual.
I love when teachers say, “Don’t take notes yet, just let me finish this.” And from that class, I remember more than the class that forced me to take notes.
Reading comprehension is what leads to have better grades. Write everything i know about the lessons that ive learned then go back and check every lessons that ive missed or made confused and rewrite into a summary on my notebook
I hated it in high school when teachers forced you to take notes (aside from history maybe) I like to summarize at the end of the chapter and skim through the book again or equivalent resource and fill in any holes in knowledge I might. It's "notes" that you'll actually use since it serves as a reference to those resources if you need a refresher.
hey man, im a 10th grade student from india (where the most pressure is put on academics above anything else). ive followed the 1st and 3rd principles since the 8th grade, i.e. i dont take notes and i practice the right amount. somethings i struggle with are: 1. Procrastination: the second principle is lost on me. i cannot for the life of me get something done as soon as possible. my homework, studies, are pushed to the back of the schedule and i fail to get them done. i get good enough marks to be an above average student but im always left feeling i could do better. 2. Handwriting: in india, a majority of the questions asked in a particular exam are question and answers. you get 10 mcq's in the beginning, and the rest is all question/answers. this means you have to write a semi-small essay 20-30 times over pretty quickly. my handwriting has sucked my entire life. everyone has told me its garbage but nobody has yet told me how to improve it. i lose a considerable amount of marks for the presentation on my answer sheet. it feels a bit hopeless and everybody keeps pressuring me to write better.
hey dude, I'm not the best when it comes to handwriting but I think I could help a bit, do you see how the text that is made by computers? usually the font is very boring but its very clear, try to write the same way a computer would and take your time, when it comes to procrastination to be honest I have the same problem but I found that avoiding your phone for the whole day from the start just don't pick the phone unless you need it and you'll be more productive if you get mentally depleted from thinking about what you need to do in the day set up a calendar it doesn't need to be complex you can just drop your task there just so you can feel less depleted, hope this helps.
@@madhavinaveen3578 I highly recommend watching professor dave's all of mathematic's playlist , he takes barely 3-6minutes on average to teach a topic.
Fine let me help you I too struggled with bad handwriting but you can buy those calligraphy notebooks for kids and write in them. There is no shame in using them to improve your handwriting:)hope this helps
I've been searching for study tips for months but none of them worked for me(Pomodoro, Spaced Repetition, Chunking). They never worked. But as soon as I started using your tips my grades skyrocketed. Thank you so much. Very useful video. You deserve more subscribers. 🙏🙏
If you need to take notes that bad, I suggest you just record your sessions and use the recordings to make notes later, or you can even use the recordings themselves as notes.@@het_eiland75
@@het_eiland75 they probably understand the textbook and can extract better and easier to learn notes from it. I had this experience in 6th grade. Felt like boss and never struggled in biology since.
Thank you so much, i have exams coming up soon and need to catch up on some work, idk about not writing notes but I think it’s good to take notes and write your own summary at the end, also flashcards are really good. Ur channel is so underrated and you got a new sub 😁
Thanks bro, I needed this. Especially when you said to focus on listening and understanding rather than taking notes, it opened my mind. Thank you, seriously.
In some classes I do really well whereas in others I used to suck and this video helped me realise what I was doing differently between them. In the subjects I was good at I took less notes and focused more on the doing as I easily understood the concepts sometimes before class as I genuinely enjoyed those classes but on the others I just took excessive messy notes. I still do think notes can be useful but not before you understand something.
Very good tips, I also think that recreating the exam environment while studying is very important to avoid nerves during the exam and also to get better at solving problems faster.
Writing notes helps me memorize, I'm homeschooled so I don't have to write my notes while the teacher is talking. Notes help me memorize and in Algebra they help me understand what I'm doing. I'm not sure about the note taking one for me 😅However the rest of the tips seem pretty good! Thx!
In my opinion, if you have to memorize you're doing something wrong. However, there's some subjects like history where you can't really get away without memorizing things like dates; for those type of subjects I would really encorage you to give flashcards a try - I dicovered them a few years ago and they are great!
first principle actually makes sense. i only take down notes for math and other subjects that need a lot of memorization of terms, bcz when u take down notes during a lesson youre more focused on what you write down instead of focusing on the actually the lesson
YO this actually worked... liked really well. I forgot to come back and say thanks over the summer break, but i watched this around a week after its posted and man i clutched up so hard at the end of the school year, went from B's to A's in just 2 months, now i am in high school starting off great because of this, tysm P.S. you forgot about those teachers that grade you for annotating your books and taking notes... but thats alr because I take my notes after class to test if i still remember everything.
Just like you, I've always thought it was a rather paradoxical situation by how taking notes is actually more of a lazier approach to understanding or remembering things. It demands less attention and doesn't really allow you to have an opportunity to effectively revise the notes you had taken down during class and still record it all again in your official notebook and again- trying to learn everything (based on how my friends do it). Rather than notes I write down questions to test myself on each topic, on the bonus side- its less time consuming. For definitions i just use flashcards (only the smaller ones because those are harder to remember)
My classmstes often judge me from not taking notes. I don't take notes becaude it's either I won't use it or I won't be able to focus on listening during the topic. I can always just access the presentation my professor gave.
I'm in 11th science (from Indian)in 10th I only got 94 % Some of the things I did :- 1. Active recall 2. Weekly revision (no timetables I can't stand them) 3. PLEASE do deskwork model paper practice (my fav Sanjiv desk work) 4. Cramming (I don't think it's useful but I still do it) 5. Stuff like Math and science numericals can't be done until you PRACTICE -PRACTICE and PRACTICE more
This method is only food if the test/exam you wanna get grades is really close. For short term memory. If you wanna get some knowledge for long time then take notes and revise them everyday
I'd actually disagree. For my case, I'm taking Mathematics as my major and while in school, i found taking notes and not doing enough problems, while focusing purely on understanding the steps, useless. I'd prefer just practicing, any mathematics teacher will tell you that doing problems is the only way to get faster and more efficient. Sure, this may be flawed for other subjects like English or chemistry which you have to memorize the quote from a book or specific facts that will be asked. However, I do believe that you can reduce your note taking by 90% and really only jot down thing that are impossible to remember at once glance. Only the essential information will then enter your brain.
@@potatoisgoodnotacherry dude honestly true, sometimes it's impossible to understand the steps in math so i find it pretty useless(sometimes not often.) and i started trying to actually practicing and memorizing the steps and kinda understanding. I actually understand kinda and perfom better
In india for competitive exams you need to memorize alot maybe not taking notes is very good for school and college but it's important during competitive exam period to understand and memorize which make competitive exam tough not everyone can Instead to should revise recall frequently, For school it might helful
The thing is, i have ADHD, in class i'll just be taking notes, one moment the teacher would give us an exercise to work on, i'd give up on taking notes and focus on the exercise but the teacher says to finish notes then work on it, i never did that... i used to get screamed at and got my grades lowered for not noting, but it ultimately served no purpose and this video and all these comments on it confirmed that that's actually benificial!
mathematics is the only subject you should take notes, for you might forget the step by step process since its kind of confusing, you can always look back to the note that you have written.
I believe it's quite the opposite. You shouldn't take notes, especially in math and physics. Hard sciences are all about problem solving, and memorizing procedures might work in the short term, but it's not a good approach in the long run
i instantly subbed, absolutely agreed with the no notes part, notes make me distracted from the actual lesson. Im in 8th grade(or form 2) and have not been taking notes for 8 years of education, still manage to consistently get top 3s in class. Unfortunately this school year some of my dumb ahh teachers forced us to take notes and told us they will be checking it. Its rlly annoying, like notes r supposed to personal. I prefer concentrating on the teacher rather than do both stuff at once and end up doing nothing.
I agree with the most of the video, but you are harsh on the note-taking method, Yes, at some times, you'll have to listen to your teacher instead of noting down everything, but sometimes, when teacher speaks Of important information, it's very Good idea to note it down, because Most of the time, that information might be the key-point in some questions, you know what i do? I listen to teacher, note down necessary information, then when im home, I check the book and note down all the facts and the information i need, also, noting down something just improves your memory on it, so noting all these down helps me check on them more easily and helps me rememember.
But noting information down makes you more likely to forget it, so unless it's something you're certain you'll forget (like some complex math fomulas), you shouldn't write it down
Two options: 1. Talk to the teacher and try to convince him that you don't take notes because it's better for you 2. If the first one doesn't work, just take notes and pray to get a better teacher next year
@MarcosHernanz No no, you don't understand. It isn't really based off of what the teacher wants, the system here in Latvia just expects notes from you and sometimes you get graded for taking notes. If you didn't take notes you might actually get an NV (which is lower than 1 and if not fixed within 2 weeks will make you do summer school automatically) Really, here you can't really go through school without notes and every subject has its own notes ofcourse. The only classes that don't need notes is sport (P.E.), arts and computer science / programming, where it isn't required to take notes.
I'm a really good student my grades are high and I don't really study much but I want higher grades I won't take notes for a month and Im gonna let u know after that month
Eating the frog first is going to do the trick for you! If you do the hardest task first thing in the morning, you will not procratinate later, since the rest feels easy compared with the hardest task. So for example, if you really hate math, try doing some math problems as soon as you wake up.
All my teachers in my School either Make us drop our pens and understand, and then take notes. Or either Talk Slower and let us take everything word for word
