Hi everyone,
I recently started attending university (in my first year) and it's currently the Christmas holidays and I have January mock exams for public, property, criminal and contract law.
In a bit of a dilemma:
Everyone (majority of people I've spoken to) says don't take notes from the textbook and just read it. They say your lecture notes are the main revision essential for helping you get a first class degree. However, I honestly learn better from a textbook, I don't understand my lecture notes (which is obviously concerning I KNOW) but when I go home and read the textbook or take notes from it, I understand everything much better. Reading a textbook is only short-term, it doesn't help me to remember or understand anything. I know I shouldn't be wasting my time taking endless notes from textbooks (which will be better spent doing active recall) but I can't help it! I said I will not and now it's December and I'm sat here taking notes? I don't know what to do!!!!!!!!!
I want to take textbook notes because it helps me personally. I take notes in silence and it helps me understand. I'm not planning on doing textbook notes for all my modules (only criminal and public law) because I can print property and contract law chapters and highlight and summarise the key necessary points.
I'm trying to catch up during this break and I dedicated time for each module. But honestly I'm struggling. I have no idea what works best for me yet and I'm having so much anxiety and stress from this and it's making me feel really depressed.
How do I revise? HOW??????