Study skills

Studying is an art and an all-out effort at learning which involves a lot of things – from getting to class on time and aswerting examinations effectively. One of the most neglected activities in studying is perhaps taking notes on class work and reading.

Note – Taking
Is writing in condensed form the content of a chapter or a whole book or classroom lectures or speeches.

The Six R Principles of note-taking

Record
Refers to writing down meaningful ideas and facts in a lecture

Reduce
Refers to summarizing notes taken down from the lecture.

Recite
Refers to reducing the main idea and facts form suitable statements for recitations

Reflect
Refers to thinking of ideas that make your notes more meaningful to you.

Review
Refers to reciting of notes frequently either nightly or several times during the week.

Recapitulate
Refers to summarizing of what have been taken down, picking keywords and concepts an providing clues to details described in the notes.