Mo asks would I write my notes the same for MCAT as I do for my classes ? And the answer to that Mo is no , I would not . And yes I would , and no , I would not . And the reason I say that is because when we talk about the MCAT but stop making excuses , stop whining , stop right , get at it . No excuses just dominate .
So classes versus the MCAT Classes this is a short study interval . This is long . This is content based . This is application and test skill based . This is confined Right . So it's a singular subject . This is complex , multi-subject . They're different .
I teach my students , whether it's for classes or for MCAT , we take notes in general with the same system when we approach reading , note taking , test taking is the same . But when it comes to the MCAT , the slight tweak you're going to make is that because with MCATting here we're going to be a lot of , because it's content .
It's a lot of content based stuff . On the MCAT , it's application and test skill , so we want to do lots of questions . The reason you're note taking has to be different for the MCAT is because with the MCAT you should be , if you're studying correctly , doing lots of questions . And if you're doing lots of questions .
The best way to do that is that you do mixed question sets , meaning one day or one session , you're studying one subject . Another day , another subject , you're studying different subjects , you're bouncing around a lot of different places . The mistake I see students make with their MCAT notes is they make non-linear , non-organized notes . So let me erase this .
I bring this up because what a lot of students use is what's called the missed questions list A lot of different names for this , but they have a whole list or a whole file , whatever , of missed questions . They also have a list of topics that they've covered , and so they have essentially two sets of notes .
The first principle note taking is that we want our notes to be clear , concise , clear and concise . If we have two sets , our notes are not going to be concise and they're also going to be muddled by two different sets . So the first thing I want to say is that you should have one single set of MCAT notes .
The second flip side of that is , with these notes , we don't want to make them in random , mixed order . So today I did this subject and it's followed by this subject . I'm just writing things down because it will be a mixed bag of random things , the way that our brain learns and holds on to things .
I just said for the MCAT , we're studying for a long period of time . We have to create functional constructs and infrastructure for our learning .
So if you think about it this way , when we learn we want to have a nice framework where we can hang topic number one , topic number two , topic number three , topic number four and so that we can see how they're all interconnected . So we have a sound structure to hang all the little details , all the little subtexts all the way on .
And if we take notes randomly , this is this , is this when we go through those notes , we are going to be jumping all over the map with no logical construct to bring that knowledge and consolidate things together , to unify them . Did I lose people ? Does that make sense ?
Comment right now does this make sense when I'm talking about we need to have a constructive infrastructure ? So we want to have one set of notes and we want those notes to be organized .
So when you have a note stack , whether it's electronic or it's a paper notebook if you hit one topic on Monday , say you hit , let's say you hit a sale , memberates and action potentials on Monday , then you do a bunch of stuff and you get another question about sale memories on Wednesday .
The rookie way and what most people do is that they make Monday might be here and then Wednesday might be way over here on the homepage . What I want you guys to do is to make an organized note set . So if Monday I hit sell membrane , even though I'm all the way down here , if I hit sell membrane again , I want to say no , I'm not taking a new note .
I want to go back and I want to concretize , I want to clarify my previous note on sell membranes . So I want to go back and say , okay , what new thing did I learn about sell membranes ?
What improved perspective do I have now of sell membranes that I can jot down to make this note clearer and more concise and more effectual and applicable for my MCAT testate , as opposed to just making these notes longer and longer and longer and impossible to A go through and B to build functional knowledge , because things aren't tied together .
But if we do this and we go back and we add everything about some membrane there and everything about that call us is here and so forth , it creates this infrastructure for us to say , oh , this is how it's related . This is how it's a natural progression of the information . Yes , does that answer the question ? Are you have questions ? Put in the box y'all ?
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