Cornell Note Taking Technique
1: Revision Notes Area: Record notes from
your text book, exercise book, video clip
etc. Keep as short but as meaningfully as
possible.
2: Key Question Column: As you're taking
notes, keep question column empty. Soon
after completing the revision notes think
of questions that the revision notes are
the answers for.
3: Summaries: Sum up each page of your
notes in a sentence or two or by recording
a summary of key terms.
Subject: Topic:
Key Questions Revision Notes
1: Read text and
write “shorthand
notes” of key points
4: Cover the “notes”
and use the
questions to test
yourself.
3: Now write a
summary of 5-10 key
terms
2: For each
“note” think
of a
question
that could
be asked
