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Taking notes you can actually use · step 6 of 7

One finished page

You will recognise a page that works.

Here is the whole thing, done. Ten seconds of setup before class, short lines during it, questions and a summary afterwards. Perhaps four minutes of work on top of the class you were sitting in anyway.

QuestionsNotesSummaryWhat is psyn?What goes in?What comes ou…Where?Why care?Photosynthesis — Tue 14thplants make own food from lightin: CO₂ + water + sunlightout: glucose + O₂happens in chloroplasts (green)→ all our food + air starts here? ask: what happens at nightPlants use light to turn water and CO₂ into food and oxyge…

A finished page. Cover the right side and answer the left.

Notice the last note line: a question mark and a thing to ask. Writing down what you did not follow is as valuable as writing down what you did, and it is the line a tutor can do the most with.

Fold this page's right-hand side away in your head and answer the five questions on the left. Anything you cannot answer is what to study — and that list took you no extra work to produce.

Looking at the finished page, how do you revise from it?

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