In high school, teachers give out work sheets where students have to fill in the blanks and that would be the students notes. In college, students have to figure out what strategy works out best for them because there will not be fill in the blank worksheets anymore, it will be up to the student on how he/she decides to take notes. Different classes require different note-taking strategies because professors have distinct ways of teaching.

For example, classes like math, English, and history will have complete different ways of taking notes.Even though many students despise math, it is easy to say that math is the only subject that is the same in every country. Many would agree that math is the easiest subject to take notes in. Math is a subject where students have to maintain their focus in order to keep up. Missing one step can cause the student to miss not just one part of learning the problem but all of it. There are usually many ways to learn how to solve an equation. Students use different techniques to learn the material. Because everything is very hands on in math the student is more likely to keep up and learn quicker. Writing the problems and steps down over again is always helpful. Luckily students continuously do that in math, it becomes clear where problems are made and where a problem needs to be fixed.

From experience, I can say that note-taking is different for every class. Some classes it feels impossible to take notes that will be helpful just because of the way the material is being taught. Math is easy because it is critical thinking and hands on, English difficult because it is a lecture class, and history frustrating because taking notes from a power point is never helpful. Therefor, note-taking can either make you or break you, just because it is hard finding the right strategy that benefits the most.