INTAKE: TO TAKE IN THE INFORMATION

• Attend lectures and tutorials
• Discuss topics with students and instructors
• Explain new ideas to other people
• Use a tape recorder
• Leave spaces in your lecturenotes for later recall.
• Describe overheads, pictures,and visuals to somebody who was not in class.

You may take poor notes because you prefer to listen. Therefore:

• Expand your notes by talking with others and with information from your textbook.
• Tape record summarized notes and listen.
• Read summarized notes out loud.
• Explain your notes to another "aural" person.

• Talk with the instructor
• Spend time in quiet places recalling the ideas.
• Practice writing answers to old exam questions.
• Say your answers out loud.

INTAKE: TO TAKE IN THE INFORMATION

• Use all your senses
• Go to labs, take field trips.
• Listen to real-life examples.
• Pay attention to applications.
• Use hands-on approaches.
• Use trial-and-error methods.

You may take poor ntoes because topics do not seem concrete or relevant.
Therefore:

• Put examples in your summaries
• Use case studies and applications to help with principles and abstract concepts.
• Talk about your notes with another "kinesthetic" person.
• Use pictures and photographs that illustrate an idea
  

• Write practice answers
• Role-play the exam situation

INTAKE: TO TAKE IN THE INFORMATION

• Use lists and headings
• Use dictionaries, glossaries and definitions.
• Read handouts, textbooks, and supplementary library readings.
• Use lecture notes.

• Write out words again and again
• Reread notes silently
• Rewrite ideas and principles into other words
• Turn charts, diagrams and other illustrations into statements

• Write exam answers
• Practice with multiple-choice questions.
• Write paragraphs, beginnings and endings.
• Write your lists in outline form.
• Arrange your words in hierarchies and points.

INTAKE: TO TAKE IN THE INFORMATION

• Pay close attentions to charts, drawings and handouts your instructors uses.
• Underline
• Use different colors.
• Use symbols, flow charts, graphs, different arrangesments on the page, white space.

Convert your lecture notes into "page pictures". To do this:

• Use the "Intake" strategies.
• Reconstruct images in different ways.
• Redraw from memory.
• Replace words with symbols and initials.
• Look at your pages.
  

• Recall you "page pictures".
• Draw diagrams where appropriate.
• Practice turning your visuals into words.