Taking notes

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Hi there!

In three weeks I'll start my second bachelor year at Utrecht University and just finished the first year with a nice 4.0 gpa. Naturally, there's always room for improvement somewhere.

Lately I've been very interested in the concept of note-taking, and I've been researching it for little bits and got some great tips. Since I think the process and aftermath of it are especially important to people with Asperger's Syndrome, and I was wondering specifically how you take notes, process them, use them for review and exam training.

Let me know, and have a nice day!

As a mother of a son on the spectrum, I have been really interested in this subject because he has real difficulty listening to a lecture AND taking notes at the same time. Also, he has problems distringuishing what parts of a lecture are important enough to write down. So I was hoping more people would respond to your thread!

It would appear that you do NOT have problems with taking notes. Is that correct?

I like to write down everything the professor says that's on topic - I find that the writing process helps me remember and keeps me focused on the lecture. I probably write down way more details than necessary but I usually find them interesting so it's not a loss. When I review, I review all the notes I have for the lecture by going over everything I've written several times, and the texts for the class - if I have to memorise a lot, sometimes I write out and re-write the things that are hard to remember.

I used to try to take notes, but I found I could either listen to the lecture or take notes on it, not both at the same time. I therefore elected to listen to the lectures. I then realised that I was falling asleep in lectures, because of my nocturnalism. I therefore stopped going to lectures, and just taught myself the course using the internet and the lecture slides from the university website.

I don't recommend it as an actual strategy, though.

I've been experimenting with different forms of note taking since my freshman year in an attempt to find one that works for me. I have actually found that if I know what area of the textbook the upcoming lecture is going to cover, I can take some notes from the text beforehand and then build off of them during class. That way I already have a basic foundation for the lesson so I'm not as lost.

Seeing as I am only in my first year of High School, I am probably not supposed to intrude, but I will anyway!

Taking notes is important for me in Algebra and Science, so I attempt to. Also, I do at the meetings I go to at the University. I always seem to take notes either too much, or too little. Also, I seem to record the data that is irrevelent (algebra, that is). But, I am getting better!

I was always forced to take notes in class, and I can tell you right now, I pretty much used none of it, but I got my exam results yesterday and every single result apart from PE was A-C.