Why NOT Taking Notes Helped Me Become a BETTER Student!

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In my 3rd year of Medical School, I decided to quit taking notes all-together. I've relied on note-taking as a memorization/study method for years, but I wasn't getting the result I was looking for. Worst of all, I was not enjoying the learning process anymore because it felt like a chore. This single-impulsive choice was one of the best things I did in Medical school.
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@abcdefg-hv2ks Жыл бұрын

I used to have this problem. Our school teacher forced us to write down the notes she created. They were lengthy, had unnecessary info (stuff that don't really help clear a concept) and i was too stressed by trying to memorize all of it. Back then,the moment i came home from school, i had lunch, had a 1 hour nap and then wrote and memorized notes till 12. Even then my work wasn't finished and had to stay up late. In grade 5. The moment i left school life i felt so liberated from so much stress. I wrote my own notes, i just jotted down main info, made small diagrams and pictures for my memorization and guess what, i went from a barely passing student to getting top grades. TLDR; Write only concise notes, if you need to.

@bkstandard882 10 ай бұрын

I realized that too. I always took notes when I was in HS and college the first time. I recently started going back to school and not taking notes and just going over the books over and over and using quizlet. I'm a better student at 35 than I ever was as a kid and young adult.

@Pathfinder89-vr4xp 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing. This is inspiring.

@crazyluck4099 Жыл бұрын

The notes didnt work for me too because i think i am a visual learner i can remember a textbook page,colour, concept,and the drawing on that page . So during exams while answering questions i remembered textbook pages and the teachings more then those notes.

@deepalipanda1434 Жыл бұрын

Haaaa ...... I found someone like meeeee😅

@rubyciide5542 Жыл бұрын

Wtf how?

@bodiminds6571 11 ай бұрын

This visual learning and audio learning is a pseudoscience , veritasium exposed it

@Biopic-hn5xb 10 ай бұрын

@@rubyciide5542it's just good visualisation power

@barido9651 8 ай бұрын

Learning styles like visual, reader... Are debunked

@stellamachame 7 күн бұрын

I quote you bro " my main aim was not to get a good grades but to get the main picture of the concept...." I think this is the main point to focus if you want to change your learning style 😉☺️

@pijnappel03 Жыл бұрын

Finally a reason to stop taking notes 😍

@nadinkhatibb Жыл бұрын

I like how special ur vids are, u always have different advices than others and honestly thats great keep making vids like these u have no idea how much it really helps

@basserstaunt9003 Жыл бұрын

I feel like the way you presented your point reflected the, checked notes/rewinded, the broader umbrella understanding. Like it really shows in this vid, I feel. Personally and at my new job, I am still taking a ton of notes and also noted that I didn’t really look back. Will now try to limit myself. Thanks for sharing!

@mosesngala1274 3 ай бұрын

Thanks bro for your thoughts and insight🙏. Taking notes on the other hand can be VERY POWERFUL if done correctly. We take notes correctly by FIRST listening or reading and processing information then AFTERWARDS write what our brains have LEARNT and PROCESSED, in a concise way. That is how our brain is wired. The brain has SENSORY NEURONS(eg from the eyes and ears) to take information to it for processing and motor neurons to take processed information from it to elicit action. Taking notes should involve using your motor neurons to make an IN PRINT of what your brain has processed instead of copying and pasting what you are reading or listening to. Once you have the in print record of what your brain has processed, then your notes should definitely be EASIER to understand and learn than a text book. ( You created them and are concise ). Point to take home: notes are RECORDS meant to aid MEMORY. Therefore, they are meant to be READ. If you aren't writing, you are reading your notes over and over again🙂 ( REPETITIVELY). RIGID MEMORY is created through repetition. In addition, note taking involves your subconscious mind and reading involves your conscious mind. Your subconscious mind is MORE POWERFUL than your conscious mind. I hope this helps a soul out there 🙂. KNOWLEDGE IS REPETITION. KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.

@undueyyy 5 ай бұрын

So relatable…I used to write notes too because that’s what people said i should do. But there is no real obligation to write notes…I honestly find they just consume so much time…I found that my marks increased by a large margin when I stopped writing notes. As I had more time to study the content than worry about notes.

@basil8271 Жыл бұрын

Interesting experience. Thank you for sharing with us!

@KloomOfficial Жыл бұрын

Glad you found it interesting :D

@whyyskiw Жыл бұрын

I feel the same when you said you never read the notes you wrote. I see my friends write down notes and referring back to it in class, but it feels pointless when I do it because it changes nothing ! All in all, great video.

@KloomOfficial Жыл бұрын

Yup that's exactly how I feel about taking notes! It just doesn't work for me and that's okay! Glad you enjoyed the video :D

@GoldenGems9 3 ай бұрын

Seriously I just put my all energy ,my all day on making notes but in return I did not get anything... So I am stopping from now making my own notes... Thanks alotbfor sharing your experience❤

@mt9021 5 ай бұрын

Notes also don't work for me and I realized that too late. They kind of do as I'm still doing academically well, but it takes too long. I just suck at notetaking and it takes too much energy out of me. Trying to use flashcards instead. But kind of fear that I jot down everything I read in those huge textbooks and not use them.

@Starwave.Entertainment-04 Жыл бұрын

Personally taking notes helped me, because i find it easier to memorize that way, however I start taking notes the night before the exam, so that the next day I can read it before entering the exam.

@KloomOfficial Жыл бұрын

Fair enough! A LOT of people really benefit from notes and use them and there's nothing wrong with that :D if it works, it works!

@willsaabye6741 Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! If I need to remember something I reread the chapters to find the big ideas.

@RanchoddasShamaldaschanchad 3 ай бұрын

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@awddssdasdsda4202 Жыл бұрын

I just wanted to say that your channel is so useful and you manage to make your videos fun as well I hope you get big one day

@Cherry-bymera 9 ай бұрын

I love this video, short and precise to the point.

@DrAA-MD Ай бұрын

No notes, just write short questions as you read the book or lecture. Ask yourself those questions later if you can remember the answer. If not just go back to the page of the book and read again quickly.

@stellamachame 7 күн бұрын

Wonderful idear💡... Thanks 👍

@whatif577-g5b 10 ай бұрын

My math teacher always told me to talke notes thats where my 80% of mind was going when lesson and today i didnot took that much notes and actually it worked:) danke

@rombasa4066 3 ай бұрын

Love it 🎉

@mickeymichelle9067 11 ай бұрын

Affective today. I’m no longer taking extensive amounts of notes.

@peteraugustoventuraviolas Жыл бұрын

nice video! but i don't know I think that the taking notes help me with memories... at least in asks of old tests to study to tests that i gotta do

@KloomOfficial Жыл бұрын

That's fair! If it works, it works there's nothing wrong with taking notes, just doesn't work for me :D

@bhagyashrikulkarni17 10 ай бұрын

Thanks ♥️ a lot , i can study with notes and without it from childhood but now it's my habit to take notes but it takes so much time ⏲️😖that's why my study of each subject became slower like you mentioned 2 hrs understanding and 5 hrs notes 😢so i searched for it is note necessary to study and found your video not I'm happy ❤

@thekuhespodcast Жыл бұрын

Thanks Kloo

@anyathetelepath Жыл бұрын

It's useful I'll try it too🙂

@KloomOfficial Жыл бұрын

Good lucK!

@stealthxddd 7 ай бұрын

Notes is so f ing trash. Like i wasted all my time writing down than just reading, at the end after writing the whole ass chapter i don't remember, maybe i do but don't feel productive it just doesn't make me feel that i remember that concept. It takes me about 5 to 10 min to understand a concept but take 20 to 30 min to write and i feel more productive, understand more and do smt when i read and explain to myself, u may say to write what you understand but like at the end of the day people like are so lazy that we dont open it. All i wanna say is actively understanding is betterc than actively writing because reading makes you remember longer

@fuzzydragon 11 ай бұрын

I had a 4.0 in college never took notes because its easier to absorb a lesson when your not distracted by writing

@richarddekoa5011 Жыл бұрын

Will try now, I got an exam next week

@nyikomkansi4536 6 ай бұрын

Taking notes is the inverse of procrastination

@HachaluFituma 4 ай бұрын

Understand the concept is extremely helpful than memorize everything

@BreighAmeryy 4 ай бұрын

Well said, I have realized this very late, but now I am just gonna focus on understanding and practicing instead of copy pasting my teacher's notes

@LexeighFlowers 5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this.

@mph_sa7239 7 ай бұрын

Thats it im gonna get myself a cat

@rebecca-fe9tz Жыл бұрын

l watch your videos from Iran 🇮🇷 ❤️

@Yentonian1989 9 ай бұрын

I took your advice and got an F!!! Thank you so much!!!

@henrycad4631 5 ай бұрын

It’s because you don’t take notes the right way. Of course, your technique is also great, but you can still ask yourself those important questions such as « How does this relate to the rest of my curriculums content ? » or « What am I really supposed to learn from this ? » and find a way to express the answer in your notes. Either you do that by being minimal in your notes and only writing those important stuff down to not waste time, or you make a mindmap.

@Koola0811 Жыл бұрын

This video not really for me. I took notes when i was a student and up to this time. It was huge help and now I'm taking my master's. Perhaps, we have different preferences. I dont learn without notes and it's already my habit and life. It retains the info more but im making sure I'm just getting the necessary coz i hate crowded notes😅

@KloomOfficial Жыл бұрын

Nothing wrong with taking notes! I'm just sharing my own personal experience with it :D If it works, it works!

@amaanarslan9858 Жыл бұрын

But if i quit notes, what do i do when i have to revise everything for the exam, like what if i forget everything until that point because i have studied so much more other topics?

@KloomOfficial Жыл бұрын

Yeah, so I didn't discuss what to do instead, but the gist of it is: Instead of reading through my notes to revise, I go through flashcards my friends made (or I found online) and revise everything constantly through those. Some of my friends instead prefer going through the lectures/lessons on the textbook by revision, but NOT by reading the book, but rather trying to explain to themselves from memory what they've learned, then looking back and checking if they've missed anything. That way you're constantly digging for information in your head. It helps A LOT with memorization and you'll find yourself remembering a lot more in the exam. It's like magic! I'll make a video in the future on specific study methods I like to use and others I don't use but think they're very very good!

@thebeatles9 3 ай бұрын

I'm not sure how you're going to organize an immense amount of information in your head if you don't have some visual way of doing it Working memory is a very finite capacity

@Zainab-yj6ln Жыл бұрын

can you share with us the textbooks that you used in med school plz especially physiology cause i have a weak foundation in it ? And also book that helped you in your clinical years Thank you 🙏

@KloomOfficial Жыл бұрын

Sure! Just to preface things, I'm not yet in my clinical years. That will be next year in about 3 months! I am just about to finish my pre-clinical years in about 2 weeks. We follow a 5-year system of 3 years of pre-clinical followed by 2 years of clinical. For physiology, I used Guyton & Hall but not very extensively. I referred back to the book when the physiology lectures were a bit confusing. I also did use BRS Physiology but only for the practice questions because they were pretty good. There's also a Guyton practice question book which I heard was pretty good but I personally did not use.

@Zainab-yj6ln Жыл бұрын

@@KloomOfficial thank you so much 🙏 Your videos are very helpful and inspiring please keep up the good work

@sajidcreativo Жыл бұрын

This is the exact reason why I wouldn't write my homework. No one understands!

@AsDfGh6781 3 ай бұрын

Im in my second year of college and i havent wrote a single note so far. I just read and read the pp b4 the test and that will trigger my memory when i see the question and im a straight A student i fins that ppl who make notes waste so much time why not just read the pp

@EG-ff3me 3 ай бұрын

How's your study routine like? Like aside from reading and understanding the textbook?

@AsDfGh6781 3 ай бұрын

@EG-ff3me i dont study thats all i do is read the pp for tests i dont make 1 single note from the pp i just read the pp over and over and i still get straught A. But then after i forget everything after the test loth when i write the test it will trigger what ive read

@your_aanchal 6 ай бұрын

Idk about me i am in highschool and last year i got B I don't take notes but from now i am starting to take notes Now let's see what will be my grades 👀😌

@okokokokok-z1c Жыл бұрын

I would say if the syllabus is huge like jee neet it is necessary

@MahVentures 7 ай бұрын

How about learning new language like english or etc , you don’t write any new vocabulary or phrases or points ? How could you be sure you don’t forget during review it?

@Evelyn-hu4hu Жыл бұрын

How can i find other ppl notes and their flashcard??

@KloomOfficial Жыл бұрын

Might wanna ask around your school to see if someone is making them. You can find them online as well if you're studying specific majors. Medicine has a lot of premade flash cards on Anki. You can also learn to make your own which was what I did in my first few years of university.

@Evelyn-hu4hu Жыл бұрын

@@KloomOfficial thank you 💓

@marisol033 Жыл бұрын

Can you share how you discovered that taking notes is not helpful

@KloomOfficial Жыл бұрын

It's personal preference. I just kinda got tired one day and wanted to experiment with some different strategies and found myself enjoying them more and performing better. Some people REALLY like notes because it works for them and that's okay too!