syllabus dot points (2 Viewers)

[maths lover]

just wondering how you write your notes like do u type them or do u hand write them. what do u think is better.

 

[SpiralFlex]

just wondering how you write your notes like do u type them or do u hand write them. what do u think is better.

I usually hand write them. Handwriting just sticks into my mind.

 

[Gigacube]

It depends what the subject is and how much content.

If I was doing something with a lot of content such as business I'd type my notes.

For Maths & English I definitely write out.

All the computing ones I handwrite unless I need a picture.

For Physics I haven't really decided. I do a bit of both.

 

[jamesfirst]

hand writing is better

 

[kr73114]

typing them takes half the time, so u have time to read over them again thoroughly.

 

[zxreth]

type.

 

[muzeikchun852]

type.

 

[jamesfirst]

typing them takes half the time, so u have time to read over them again thoroughly.

if you're complaining about the deficiency in time when hand writing them... might as well quit HSC now...

honestly hand writing them does not take long. For english maybe, but certainly not for Physics and Chemistry


You're more focused when hand writing them. I know a lot of failures who type their notes and fails their exam. The top students are those who take time in making good notes and most of them hand writes their notes

 

[jnney]

hand

 

[Riproot]

typing them takes half the time, so u have time to read over them again thoroughly.

Fuck off it does.
After you get the font sorted out and fuckin' all that shit.
I'm a normal paced writer and it only takes me around an hour a section. HANDWRITING!!!

 

[LoveHateSchool]

Hand and type have advantages.

Hand you tend to absorb more by handwriting.

Typing is way faster (I only type at 65 WPM too, but still way better than handwriting), easy to put tables in, change formatting add things in.

 

[Riproot]

Hand and type have advantages.

Hand you tend to absorb more by handwriting.

Typing is way faster (I only type at 65 WPM too, but still way better than handwriting), easy to put tables in, change formatting add things in.

Handwriting tables is easy.
Typing isn't heaps faster... All of you fuck off.

 

[muzeikchun852]

Typing is way faster (I only type at 65 WPM too, but still way better than handwriting), easy to put tables in, change formatting add things in.

this.

 

[OmmU]

Both type and hand. I type an extensive summary based on the dot points then after reading a few times, I write down main info associated with the dotpoint... Therefore a brief summary

 

[Aindan]

The problem with handwriting your notes is that when you come back to it when you are revising for your exams and you realise you may have missed out important snippets of information. Whereas if you type, you can just edit your work and it's all good.

 

[smartalec]

typing them is personally faster, then i handwrite them out heaps to remember.

 

[Riproot]

The problem with handwriting your notes is that when you come back to it when you are revising for your exams and you realise you may have missed out important snippets of information. Whereas if you type, you can just edit your work and it's all good.

You can add pages in?
And you can leave space like a normal person.

 

[jamesfirst]

I do tables separately on computer and print them to paste it along with my handwritten notes. I have this book for my syllabus notes =P


Much more organised than those who have printed it in my school. But at the end of the day it's all about the quality of the notes and how much you know. Do you know all your printed points ? I know all my handwritten notes

 

[Riproot]

Do you know all of your printed points? I know all of my handwritten notes.

This.

 

[Chambalam]

It really is a matter of HOW you go about writing the notes, not just the medium you use. I type all my notes. I even type up my maths notes these days.

The main reason is organisation. You have control - you can edit, cut, copy, shrink, enlarge, add a picture, highlight a section, add some more crap here or take some crap out there. My second reason is that it is far more compact. Since you have that control, your notes are ridiculously smaller. A smaller set of notes mentally makes it feel more comforting, as it feels like you are going through less.

If you're slow with computers, fair enough - not your thing. But I think one issue with it is that people literally transfer some textbook notes or class notes STRAIGHT to the computer. If you move text from A to B without any midground, your brain won't process anything.

Often what I do with my notes is make 'dot point notes' for maybe 3 textbooks. Often the notes from textbook B overlap with notes from textbook A. Then I sit down all of the jumbly-crap and I don't learn it by typing it up, I learn it by digitally trying to express the ideas of 3 very similar dot points (as in, bullets, not syllabus dot points) into a singular one.

^^ That may sound slow, but its not.

Its really a matter of how you go about doing the typing, whether you are computer literate and whatnot.

Handwriting = You remember more, but, the benefits and flexibility of typing outweigh that, you can easily compensate for a 40% less remembered by that flexibility.

At least, my 2 cents ;P