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title: "Notes that are worth rereading"
description: "Useful notes keep the main ideas, questions and links to earlier learning. Selecting and summarising can help you process the material, while preserving enough accurate detail to study from."
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# Notes that are worth rereading

Useful notes keep the main ideas, questions and links to earlier learning. Selecting and summarising can help you process the material, while preserving enough accurate detail to study from.

Subject: Learning to Learn · Area: Learning to Learn · Ages 16 to 18
Page: https://lightmysky.com/learn/learning-to-learn/notes-that-are-worth-rereading-mt_u95SIfc8iI

## Ready when they can

- Turn a page of transcribed notes into questions and answers
- Mark the parts you did not understand rather than skipping them silently
- Explain how selecting and summarising ideas can help learning without losing needed details

## Lesson: Take notes you will reread

Use a focused block to listen or read carefully. Record the date, topic and source. Capture the main idea, its reasons and a useful example in your own words. Keep needed terms and conditions. Leave space beside anything unclear, and write the question you need answered.

**Example.** For a textbook chapter, preview its headings, then read one section closely. Note its main point, supporting evidence and an example. For an explanation, note what happens and why. Close the book and summarise the section. Reopen it to check accuracy and fill gaps.

*(drawing: Check your summary after your own recall attempt.)*

Selecting ideas and explaining their links makes you think about meaning. Shorter notes can help when they keep what matters. Length alone says little about learning: a short page can omit a needed condition, and copied notes can preserve useful details. Add a link to something you already know when it helps explain the new idea.

Turn a heading into a question that its notes can answer. For 'Causes of the delay', ask 'What caused the delay?' Hide the answers, recall, then check. Mark a confusing part with a question mark or star and write a specific question. Check the source or ask for help soon, perhaps later that day. Keep unresolved questions visible.

Review notes soon enough to fill missing details; within a day is one possible starting plan. Then revisit questions across several days. Answer before checking, and correct gaps before another attempt. Adjust the gaps between sessions to your results and deadlines. Sleep supports memory and attention, so avoid making lost sleep part of your study plan.

**Recap.** Keep useful details, mark specific questions, and answer review questions from memory before checking your work.

*Lesson, questions and flashcards written for this dataset. OpenStax College Success and wikiHow note-taking records informed the factual and teaching review.*

## Practice

8 questions on this page, each with its working shown.

## Optional connections

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- [Protecting One Block of Attention](https://lightmysky.com/learn/learning-to-learn/protecting-one-block-of-attention-mt_KMarG52Ab7)
- [Retrieval Practice Instead of Rereading](https://lightmysky.com/learn/learning-to-learn/retrieval-practice-instead-of-rereading-mt_Pj5Au-ztqs)

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