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[mat!!!]

my aim for this first year semester as a newbie is to carry on my high school habits of creating notes every night/week from my lecture n tuts (per subject) but im confused as to the stationary i need to go about this in uni.

im thinking for lectures- take the printouts to the lecture and write additional notes next to each slide when necessary.
These printouts will be sorted in 1 clip folder for all lectures ie. 'Anatomy' notes then colour divider then 'population health notes', colour divider etcc

however im still confused as to how tutorials/pracs work so i dnt know if i should then take separate exercise books for the tuts..

anyway i plan on then summarising the printouts,additional notes and relevant text book info from both tuts and lectures into separate exercise books for each subject

 

[witide]

My mind just asploded. I just use a big exercise book already divided into 4 sections, or 4 separate books.

 

[kim3478]

I'm using two A4 Colour Hide notebooks which are double-sided. It's 300 pages and basically you just flip it over to use the other side, so it's a two subject thingy book.
I bought two 'cause I have 4 units, and on the days where I have two different subjects, I just use the one book 'cause my timetable worked out brilliantly.
And that is just for lectures/tutorials..

For notes for studying I think I'd prefer to either record them or use a binder folder and loose leaf lined paper.

 

[bregitta]

I print all of my lecture notes and keep them in one of those books full of plastic sleeves. I have one book for each subject so I don't get confused. During lectures I highlight the important bits and write notes down the sides etc (this is also useful when going over stuff before exams and realising which lectures I didn't attend)

For labs/tutes/revision I have a 5section spiral notebook. Each section has one subject devoted to it. But I tend to write heaps in it the first few weeks of uni then just give up.

 

[Lydia_88]

5 spiral section for my notes

a4 plastic sleeve binder to put extra material in

 

[Strawbaby]

Laptop

 

[RDX]

My mind just asploded. I just use a big exercise book already divided into 4 sections, or 4 separate books.

I get them 5 subject note books, 1 for each subject and 1 left over for just general working out space or whatever

 

[mcflystargirl]

What i do is have a 4 subject colourhide notebook, one section for each, and put my lecture notes for each week in the relevent pockets. I then have a display book for each subject which the notes get sorted into with 1 or two plastic sleeves per a week. Then when i am studying i just type up notes or handwrite them and put them in folders.

 

[roookie]

ok this thread is really scary

c'mon isn't uni meant to be all play no work?

 

[RDX]

ok this thread is really scary

c'mon isn't uni meant to be all play no work?

Gotta learn to balance it out.

 

[witide]

Gotta learn to balance it out.

Yeh, but just enough to make it 50/50. Don't want anything to extreme now...

 

[yummy-cookies]

five subject notebook ftw!

 

[spence]

I find 5 subject ones annoying, cause they only have 50 pages per subject, which is always just short of enough for me. This sem, I've got a 3 subject one, and one seperate. Although I'm probably going to drop down to 3 subjects

 

[babikakez]

I've got a 4 subject notebook, with a display folder for each unit for lecture slides/other handouts.

Though I'm probably going to take my laptop for lectures some days. I swear the amount of Arts students with laptops has doubled compared to last year (well my observation anyway).

 

[dawdlex3]

Make sure you use the most time effective and simplest way to organise your notes, because once you get past week 3 or 4 it's easy to get lazy with note taking.

 

[mcflystargirl]

Something I have found also works is a folder and dividers, just hole punch your lecture notes, and put them in the relevent sections. I don't like that i have to carry the folder around though.

 

[audioxdoll]

What i did for the hsc was only use one notebook and then when i got home i would divide all my work into a seperate folder for each subject. This meant only one book to carry around all day and a way of looking over work and remembering what i did when i organised my notes.
I will probably do this with uni as well. Although i do have one of those 4 subject books for tutorials but i only use one note book for all my lectures.

 

[Lou283]

I bought a 4 subject notebook but they are quite heavy compared to a normal notepad. I have now just got a normal A4 notepad and what I do is I print off the lecture notes and take them along, and if they say something specific about a word or term on the slides or something I write it on the printout. If it's additional infomration I write it in my notepad. Then in my 'study' times I then type up my hand written notes so that I understand what I wrote and refer it back to my print out - this way when I have studying for exams it all makes sense.

When all thats done I then file it in one plastic sleeve - one side has lecture stuff and then when you turn the page the other side has the tutorial stuff showing that corresponds to that weeks lecture topic. I have a seperate folder for each unit and its not a hardback folder coz they are annoying to carry - its one of the plastic covered ones that don't take up as much room. On the days I have that unit I can then just take the folders I need and all the info is there.