Tips for making your own revision notes for JEE preparation

By Aman Goel

Making notes is an essential aspect of preparation for any competitive exam. Be it JEE, NEET, UPSC or any other exam for that matter.

Notes are made for few simple reasons, some of which are mentioned below:

• By making notes, you summarize all the important topics that you would like to view together, without going in depth. This saves you time as you are able to revise all important concepts quickly.
• Making notes saves you the hustle of going from one book to another at the time of revision since everything is at one place only.
• You get a better understanding of a topic if you prepare its notes.

The tips and tricks that you discover yourself while studying a topic can be written down in your self-made notes. You might not be able to find them anywhere else.

You can prepare your own notes or you can get them online too. However, it is always advisable to make your own notes because of the above mentioned reasons. You will get a better understanding of the topic when you make notes of it, since you will be making the notes in your own simple language and then you can understand whether you have understood the topic completely or not.

If you think that making your own notes takes a lot of time, but also want personalized notes, you can get revision notes online from the internet and customize them according to you. You can add all that you feel is missing in them. In this way, you will be able to make your own personalized notes in a relatively shorter time.

Tips for making revision notes

• Making memory maps is a very useful technique of making notes. Human mind can remember pictures much more easily as compared to text. Hence, when you make memory maps, it stimulates your picture-memory and you can remember them easily and for longer time. Do not make very colorful and elaborate memory maps. Make them crisp and concise which are easy to recall.
• While studying a topic, you may encounter some questions which are very conceptual and you would like to revise them again. You can add even such questions to your notes. The more you will read them again and again, the more they will get stored in your memory better.
• Some people have habit of making notes in the book itself. While this may be quite convenient, it is always advisable to make notes in a separate notebook. Making notes in a separate notebook gives you the flexibility to make memory maps  as well, which is not possible in a book due to limited space available.
• You can use highlighter to highlight important things in the book. You can even use different colors for the same. However, be cautious to not highlight everything and make your book a paint book.
• While writing chemistry reactions in a notebook, it is very helpful if you write the names of several compounds using the same colored pen as that of the color of the compound. Since humans have a picture memory, this color-coding of compounds well help in remembering the actual colors of the compounds. This is essential as many questions in Chemistry, especially that of Qualitative Analysis, involve identifying compounds with their colors.
• Try to make notes during class too. The teachers are the masters of the subject. They may teach things that you may not find in books. Be very attentive in the class and jot down whatever the teacher says. Of course you will not be able to write everything that the teacher says, but try not to miss anything that is important.
• There are many chapters in which many jargons are present. Also, many times the teachers use some jargons, which are not officially used. Such jargons should be noted down carefully, especially the ones that are easy to forget.

 

How to make well organized notes?

• Making organized notes is important. Imagine a situation where you have made notes but then you are not able to understand what you had written when you read the notes after a long time. To avoid such a situation, make your notes well organized.
• Divide your notes into headings, subheadings, sub-subheadings. This will help you understand your notes better when you read them after a long time.
• Many times there are some big concepts which can't be written fully in notes. In such cases, add appropriate references of the concepts to the books from where you have read them.
• It is better to make notes in a binded notebook. This is so because it would prevent loss of pages. However, if you are using loose sheets for making notes, keep them safely in a folder in proper order. You can also get the loose sheets binded later.
• Write the name of the subject on the notebook. Also, you should write the names of the chapters in the index. Since one notebook would not be sufficient to prepare notes of all the chapters of a subject, you will surely need multiple notebooks. Hence, maintaining an index is quite beneficial.

 

About the Author:

Aman Goel is co-founder at a Tech Start-up. He holds a BTech in Computer Science Engineering from IIT Bombay with a JEE Advanced AIR 33 (Year 2013).

During his free time, he enjoys writing articles/blogs. He is an Entrepreneur, Coder, Speed-cuber, gamer, and fan of Air crash investigation!

 

 

 

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