The best steps to take are to learn the following rules and to use them in writing Hebrew every morning during breakfast. These rules on their own are powerless and need to be supplemented by familiarity with the shape of each Hebrew word, but with such a knowledge these rules can guide you to correct pointing, happy supervisions, and possibly even a first class degree. The Pointing Decalogue 1. Learn to distinguish between closed and open syllables. Closed ones end in consonants which are not acting as vowel letters.
Open ones have no consonant at the end.
Learn to distinguish long and short vowels. Learn where words are stressed. This is generally on the last syllable, but sometimes on the penultimate one. Do not put a long vowel in an unstressed closed syllable. If you have a closed syllable without stress do not point it with a long vowel.