Summary

Do you make best use of your lectures? Lectures are one of your best chances to find out what’s really expected of you. Lectures may be a direct chance to observe the people who may be setting your exam questions!

If you make good use of lectures, your lecture notes will live up to the simple criteria below.

Good lecture notes:

• contain all the important points from the lecture.

• distinguish between important things and other details.

• contain your own thoughts, questions, reactions.

• don’t look like pages of a novel

• are attractive to use.

So, over to you. Get some practice in. Try keeping yourself in decision-making mode in your lectures!