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- Test Taking Tips Whether you're a high school or college student, tests are unavoidable. If you take a multiple-choice exam your strategy will be different than if you were to take an essay test. Learning proper note taking, studying and test taking strategies are a vital part of improving your grade on exams as well as your academic success.
- Note Taking Copying class notes after the fact is a time-consuming way to study for an exam, but it was the only thing that truly worked for me back in college. But next week I'll be in a classroom again for the first time in 8 years, pen poised over notebook, and this time I'm going to perfect a strategy that gets my notes right the first time: the Cornell Note-taking method.
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- A Brief Guide: How to study If you are reading a printed version of this, you might be interested in the Web version, at http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/howtostudy.html which has numerous links to other helpful Web sites (indicated in some printed versions by underlined phrases).
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