Notes should help the student to think more clearly on the organized points of the lecture notes Help the student learn and remember the important ideas or facts. Gives the student an accurate record of significant principles, facts, and ideas. Helps the student remember more accurately, and for a longer period of time. From the notes, the student can reorganize the material for better learning and for review. Makes the organization clear.
Helps overcome nervousness and fear of examinations.
Makes cramming, or going over a great mass of unlearned material at the close of a course, unncessary. Study the topic before the lecture. Follow the syllabus, or course outline. Study today's lesson - text or readings. Survey or preview the next lesson or topic, by noting main topics or headings, sub-headings, charts, tables, illustrations, etc., and reading the summary, if there is one, in the text.