1. Cornell Notes

2. History of Cornell Notes
-Developed in 1949 at Cornell University by Walter Pauk.
-Designed in response to frustration over student test scores.
-Meant to be easily used as a test study guide.
-Adopted by most major law schools as the preferred note taking method.

3. Cornell Notes

4. Why Take Notes?
-Cornell note taking stimulates critical thinking skills.
-Note taking helps students remember what is said in class.
-A good set of notes can help students work on assignments and prepare for tests outside of the classroom.
-Good notes help students organize and process data and information.
-Helps student recall by getting them to process their notes 3 times.

5. The Curve of Forgetting
At the end of a lecture, you know 100 % of what you learned.
By day 2, if you have done nothing with the info, you will have lost 50%-80% of what you learned.
Between days 7 and 30, you lose almost all of the information (97-98%) you learned.

6.
Change the amount of information you forget by repeatedly exposing yourself to the information.
More exposure = quicker recall
Formula:
Within 10 minutes, review notes (add info, highlight, etc.).
Within 24 hours, review notes again (add questions on the left).
Within a week, write the summary and review your notes.
Any time after spend a few minutes reviewing. (Quiz yourself!)

7. What kind of questions?
-Questions that are answered in the notes on the right -Questions you still need the answer to--ask a friend or the teacher after class -Questions the teacher might ask on a test

8. Tips for Studying With Notes
-Cover the right side of your notes; review and answer study questions from the left using the right side as an answer key.
-Quiz yourself out loud.
-Cover the right side with blank paper; write out answers to the left column study questions.

9. Tips for Studying With Notes
-Write summaries of the most important material in the summary/reflection section.
-Write a quiz for others using notes; exchange and correct.
-Write anticipated test questions beyond those already in the left-hand column and write answers.

10. Tips for Studying With Notes
-Look over notes frequently to keep information and questions still unanswered fresh in mind. -Recite information from notes.