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In another thread someone said something that had me thinking about test in college. You know I do read the book, but whenever I get to the test, the test usually end up being about the information I disregarded as unimportant. Usually in the book the information that is bold, bullet pointed, and datelines are very important to me. Especially dates. Then I am asked questions that aren't any of these specifics. Worse off yet, is when I take notes I use the exact vocabulary definition from the book. However, the teacher's tend to not use the exact vocabulary. I think the worse is offender is when they make questions based on the commentary boxes, the ones I don't really like reading because it's blurbs of "did you know" and it's like why yes I already knew, so I don't read it.
Anyone else experience this? Is this just being obsessive over dates and bullet points? Or is this really synthesizing the info differently?

Definitions should be uniform, and comment boxes should be specifically included by the teacher - unless, of course, you have a teacher that expects you to read the WHOLE page.

Yeah. That seems to be the whole thing. They want me to read the whole page. But I cut out what I don't think is important enough. I keep all the hard facts stored. Not the soft facts that may or may not be what I need to know.

yeh maybe just ask yourself every now and then " How could anyone possibly turn this (soft crap) into a question. That way you will store it differently but yet you'll know it cuz you thought about it briefly.