Notes vs Books

VickBack

I was just wondering...

Does anyone prefer having books in college instead of getting handed like a million sheets of notes??

Personally, I would rather have books than using notes... They get lost too easily and if yer not that organised they won't be in order and yer head would be a mess..!

Whereas with books ya have all teh info you need... ya just need the page number!

2 years of having notes in college.... big waste of paper!!

At least ya will keep books!!

Anybody agree or disagree??

OctavarIan

I prefer notes. If the lecturers didn't give you notes you'd still be making them from your books anyway. Notes are much much easier to look back over than books are. Just buy a folder and spend a couple hours gettin em organised

lonetcrystal

Information presented in class often contains the central concepts of the course and the material most likely to be included on exams. Notes can be a critical tool for preparing for exams. Your class notes can serve as an important tool for reviewing for exams and distilling key concepts. Book is a manual of instruction or a standard book in any branch of study.

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lemon_sherbert

I prefer notes too, with suggested further reading. I've found so far (in my very limited experience here), that when the course requires a specific book, it tends to be a very off-by-heart kind of subject.

I much prefer when I can pick the best bits out of lots of different books and articles to study from, based on a course structure around the notes; it feels like a more rounded education.

Plus, it's always what I thought college was supposed to be, independent studying, rather than 'read chapter 6 for next week when we'll have an MCQ!'

bp_me

VickBack wrote: »

2 years of having notes in college.... big waste of paper!!

At least ya will keep books!!

Anybody agree or disagree??

I have 4 years worth of handwritten, photocopied and various other notes (in the attic). It's not that hard to keep them all. A small plastic folder for each subject tends to do fine for a semester. Though they are now taking up a fair chunk of space.

spottedfrog

I'm a fan of taking notes and reading. It's easy to keep notes organized if you type them out on a laptop in class, or just keep them in a folder with pockets (one for old info, one for new (pockets, that is)).