Focused Note-Taking & Cornell Way

Why do people take notes?

• Because they are bored

• To help them remeber information

• To help them pass their class

• None of the above

Which of the following are types of notes?

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All notes should include the following:

• Summary and Notes

• Notes

• Notes, Questions, and Summary

• Summary, Notes, and editing marks

Focused Notes are

• A way to process information

• Just 1 type of notes

• A learning system

• Only good for some classes

Why do we chunk our notes?

• We don't chunk our notes

• To know the main ideas and their details

• To make it look nice

• What is chunking?

Summary is a

• a paragraph that answers the Essential Questions and that includes the main ideas.

• a paragraph about what I did in class that day.

• a paragraph that explains what we learned in that unit.

• random paragraph about what I learned

How many phases are their in the Cornell Way/Focused Note-Taking Process?

• 2

• 4

• 3

• 5

In step 1 of the note-taking process you are supposed to create the note template

• True

• False

According to the rate of forgetting, how much information do you lose without studying or repetition?

• 50%

• Less than 50%

• 100%

• 90%

How fast does someone forget over 40% of what they learned?

• 5 minutes

• 24 hours

• 1 hour

• 18 minutes