Using your notes for a purpose, build a quick reference/cheat sheet – Study Idea

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Continuing my series of posts about study tactics I use I’d like to offer this one to you all. As usual in this case I’m going to base it off of an I.T. related topic but it can most certainly be expanded to any topic/studying scenario.

Unless you are blessed with eidetic(idetic)/photographic memory (if you are I’m jealous) a lot of us take notes as we study. Of course many of us are taught “Write it down, you’ll remember it better” or similar throughout our growing up and education. The question becomes more of what do you do with those notes?

Personally, I have a certain skill of forgetting about them in a long lost world of chaos and just running around like a toddler. So the other night falling asleep I came up with an idea (Okay, no surely I’m not the first one but passing it along). The purpose of notes is to look back at them. Sure, I may remember about something at a point and write it down but this post is in the nature of studying for some sort of practical situation/exam or written exam.

My idea to force myself to look back at them is this, make a quick reference/cheat sheet based on your notes. Here are my thoughts behind this. First off, it makes you look back at those notes. The concept of quick reference/cheat sheet is it’s the key pieces of information. To build one means reading through your notes and picking out highlight items. This first has you reading your notes again, second getting that highlight item out of it, third maybe going off “I forgot all about that section/topic” which leads you to revisit it. Fourth, you build that sheet.

So now, you’ve revisited everything, found out things you forgot and went back to, but now you also have a nice quick reference for the day(s) before/of your scenario of practical/written situation as a fast refresher on key items.

This is just an idea I’m using and trust me some of my ideas are flawed 🙂 However, I wanted to share it as it may be a good tactic others can use to assist in their learning paths. Below is an example of a quick reference/cheat sheet I’m building off my notes for AZ-700. Please let me know if you have any other concepts/ideas/tactics for learning and if you’d like to share as a guest post.

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