When you're taking notes, you probably don't know what you need to remember most. That's where highlighting comes in! If you're getting stuck on what you need to know, that little yellow pen can save your life!
If you have a teacher that gives out note packets, you can use this to your advantage. If they already put the notes into the packet, great! Now all you need to do is go through and highlight the most important things: dates, people, places, etc. If the teacher tells you that something in the notes needs to be remembered, highlight it-they aren't saying that for nothing, after all! When you highlight, you can come back later on, after you've already forgotten what you were supposed to know, and get a little bit of a memory jog. That can help you study greatly; in fact, highlight things you had trouble with, too. This can help you better prepare for it later if it appears on a test.
For those whose teachers give out notes you have to fill in, or rely on you to take the notes yourselves, you can still use highlighting. This time, though, you'll be highlighting in your textbook! (PSA: If you don't own your textbook, DON'T DO THIS!) When a teacher lectures, instead of scrambling to take notes, just highlight the corresponding information in your textbook, even writing down some reminders of other information to help you even better. For those college students, even if you don't own the textbook, you can highlight at your expense; it could be a help to the next year student who has no idea what to do for note taking. At the end of the day, you'll still have to take the notes, but now you have a place where you can find the relevant info easy!
So go out and buy a Bic! It can save your butt in history class in more ways than one!
-Pharaoh Noh-Tyep
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