making notes

[smalley]

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hi,
how gladly i had made note of supposedly very imp topics of uw etc ,so much my fa etc has been filled...now i am on the verge of thinkin that all that was useless as i may not be able to go thru them all🙁
how many of the test takers an fut test takers really believe that makin notes is really that helpful?

 

[SeventhSon]

many find it useful, some didn't do it and considered it a waste of time and crowding a high yield source with lower-yield facts.

If you have so many notes you can't get through it, then yeah it is not a good use of time.

 

[Jay Jay]

Sometimes just having written it down helps in the storage/memory recall. It may have helped you even if you don't get around to reading through all of it.

 

[cdql]

Depends on each person's study style. Almost everyone around me felt the need to fill their FA with interesting facts.

On the other hand, I a) dislike writing
b) dislike looking at a whole page of gobbledygook
c) wrote in page numbers instead for highly complicated subjects so that I could quickly refer to that material in another review book

I found that method worked quite well for me but again, it's all personal preference

 

[ginger60]

I wrote down tons in FA, and sometimes crossed out FA and wrote stuff from other sources (especially Goljan) that I thought was organized better than FA's version. When it came time to review everything, not only did I not have time to read through everything but looking at all the crap I wrote was frankly depressing and not at all HY. I read hardly any of my annotations when I reviewed FA the days before the test and don't regret it at all. Of course, the act of annotating FA may have helped me remember all of those facts, but when it comes down to it you really should only read FA--its as HY as it gets.