Do you take notes? Not everyone does but we’ve coached several who take notes when they work through the readings in the CFA texts, and review notes as a method of reflecting before the mocks.
So do you know how to take and review notes so that you are in the half that will pass? We coach on the Cornell Notes method and we’ll share it here for you. (All credit goes to Cornell University who shares these tips with all students to be better students.)
The Cornell Notes method prescribes how to organize the notes and then how to review the notes so that real learning occurs. Cornell Notes involves dividing each page up into three sections: one to paraphrase the lecture’s main ideas, one to summarize those ideas, and one to write questions. After writing down those main ideas during class, immediately summarize and add questions about the content.
Then, while studying later, try to answer those questions without looking at the main body of notes.
Finally, the notes are used in the “Reflect” stage (in which you ask yourself broader questions like “What’s the significance of these facts?” and “What principle are they based on?”) and the “Review” stage (in which you “spend at least ten minutes every week reviewing all your previous notes” to aid retention).
More on the method in this video, and link below.
(Even inc. magazine wrote this up. Read more here. )
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