How to study efficiently: The Cornell Notes Method
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Hello. My name is Emma, and in today's video I am going to teach you
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an amazing way to listen and take notes.
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This method I am going to teach you today is really, really going
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to help you, and I know this because I use this method myself, and I found it has really,
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really helped me when I was in university, during meetings, during all sorts of different
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situations. This method really works.
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So, first, before I teach you about the method, I want you to think about yourself and I want
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you to think about: When do you take notes? Okay? So, when do you listen and when do you
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take notes? So, some of you might think... Maybe you're in university, maybe you're in
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college, maybe you're in high school, and you have to listen to your teacher talk, and
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you have to take notes to help you remember what they are saying. Maybe you've graduated
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and you're working in a business, and you have meetings and... Or presentations, and
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you also need to take notes. So, this method will work for whether you're working or you're
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studying. Maybe you're taking the IELTS or the TOEFL, this can also help you on the TOEFL
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test in terms of improving your listening and taking notes.
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So, how do you take notes? Okay? I know some students, they watch their professor or their
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teacher talk, and they use their computer, and they just type everything their professor
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or teacher says. Is this something you do? Maybe you write your notes, and you write
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every single thing your professor says down on a piece of paper, or anything somebody
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says. Well, there are a couple of problems with these methods, and I'm going to explain
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to you some of the problems now. So, for people who like to take notes by computer, there
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are some advantages of this. You're able to type really quickly and you're able to get
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a lot of what you hear down on your computer, and it's easy to save. But the problem with
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this is it's a type of passive listening. So, a lot of the times you're not actually
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using your brain to interpret what you're listening to, and you're not actively listening.
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You're just copying word for word, you're not actually doing anything active with the
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material you're listening to. So, working with a computer-and I've seen this in my university-a
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lot of students also end up going on Facebook during the lesson or lecture. So, a lot of
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the times they get very distracted. When they should be listening, they're actually not. So,
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for me personally and I think for a lot of people, using a computer to take notes is
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not the best method. Again, for some people it might work, but for a lot of people it
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doesn't. A lot of the times it's actually better to take notes by hand, and the reason
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is when you take notes by hand, you have to think about what you're writing because writing
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takes a bit longer than typing. So you're organizing the material, therefore it's more
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of an active way to listen. Okay? And they've done psychology studies on this, and they
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do find that taking your notes by hand is often better than taking notes by a computer.
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So, today I am going to teach you a way to take notes by hand using what is called
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"The Cornell Method". This method was developed at Cornell University, and a lot of universities
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actually encourage students to use this method because it is very good. So, what is the Cornell
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Method? Okay, well, I'm glad you asked. So, I have here an example of how you would organize
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your paper. Imagine this is your paper that you take your notes on. What you can do is
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you can make a box just like this where you have a box where you write the title and the
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date of the lesson, you have a square or a rectangle here, you have a rectangle here,
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and you have a rectangle at the bottom. Okay? So, in total you have-one, two, three, four
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-four different rectangles.
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Now, what do you do? So, I already said you write the title here and the date here. In
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