During WWII, a colonel from Alaska asked Prof. Emeritus Walter J. Pauk to draft a brief guide on how to teach his soldiers to read and study effectively for their correspondence courses. The guide ...

Taking better notes isn’t just about writing things down — it’s about organizing, revising, and connecting ideas so they ...

Why old habits fail: Re-reading and highlighting feel productive but don’t build lasting memory. Passive review tricks your brain into thinking you’ve learned more than you have. What really works: ...

I can't be the only person who has only recently learned about a way to take notes called The Cornell Note-taking System, so named because it was developed by a professor at Cornell University, back ...

Business Insider recently discovered that we've been taking notes wrong for decades. MIT grad Hooman Katirai revealed that the standard method for notetaking — listen to what someone says, write down ...

A while back, in my corporate days, I was experiencing this far too often. So I went back to my college days and pulled out a note-taking method I used to use, one of the most popular note-taking ...

My freshman year, I freaked out when midterm season rolled around, because I had no idea how I was supposed to study. Midterms in college can be daunting. It feels like there's so much more pressure ...