Shaping Notes

Notes you take from lecture may be a in a haphazard way because you have to focus on lecture to learn as well. Similarly notes taken from book may not in proper format as you have to focus on learning as well. The notes you take should be shaped in proper way so that it can be properly used in future.

Shaping notes according to the question format of exam helps you present you answer in befitting way. There are different ways to shape notes.

• Writing in points
• Writing in paragraphs
• Making diagram, tables or chart

It depends on you which way you like to write your notes. But students, whose exams comprise of MCQs, prefer “writing notes in points”. On the other hand students, whose exams comprise of essay question, prefer “Writing notes in paragraphs”

SHAPING NOTES