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posted by chromas on Thursday May 09 2019, @01:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the ♪♫ dept.

Phys.org:

If you're a student looking for the most advanced learning machine available, give laptops a pass—and pick up an age-old notebook.

You'll absorb and retain more information if you take notes by hand, according to a study by UCLA, giving you an edge on your tests.

That spiral-bound stack of paper has other advantages, too: You can't zone out on Facebook and Instagram during a lecture, so you are more likely to stay focused.

Putting pen to paper requires a different kind of mental processing than typing does. Sure, typing on a laptop gives you the power to record a lecture nearly word for word—but transcribing verbatim is associated with what's called "shallow cognitive processing." The words may be captured on your screen, but they basically went in one ear and out the other.

Also, your notebook doesn't run Fortnite.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 09 2019, @04:44AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 09 2019, @04:44AM (#841204)

    the best, most effective method of passing tests? cheat. time tested.

  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday May 09 2019, @02:59PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 09 2019, @02:59PM (#841349) Journal

    I found that mastering the material was the best way to do good on tests. It really worked!

    It may be a little known secret these days. But I practiced. Experimented. Tried out new techniques. I spent every waking free hour in the computer center.

    On Work-Study program I was moved to working in the computer center on administration software. (eg, mostly writing report programs, or some batch processing programs.)

    I was eventually given permission to stay after closing time, about 9 PM. The physical plant people were informed, and I sometimes stayed until 1 AM or more. The whole system all to myself.

    What happened next I think was unprecedented: I was given my own disc pack, and could reboot the system on this other disc pack and experiment with the OS. (This was a minicomputer, and terminals were only in this building.) I learned to write these "system handler" things. (think "device drivers", "services", etc) This was my 3rd year. But was amazing.

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    People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
    • (Score: 2) by Immerman on Thursday May 09 2019, @04:43PM

      by Immerman (3985) on Thursday May 09 2019, @04:43PM (#841393)

      >I found that mastering the material was the best way to do good on tests. It really worked!
      Agreed. Not the easiest way to ace the test, but definitely the best. After all, the point of going to school is to learn things that will (hopefully) be useful later in life. If all you're going to do is cheat your way to a degree, you may as well just go buy one from a mail-order "university" - it'll be worth only slightly less, and save you a bundle in time and tuition.