Note Making

Note Making

Note-making caters to the need to remember the main points and the most important facts of any given subject/topic.

Making notes includes the following :

I. Making Notes

1. Title

2. Headings

3. Sub headings

II. Abbreviations Key

III. Summary (80 words)

I. Making Notes 

Points to remember –

1. Read the paragraph carefully and as quickly as possible.

2. Mark the important points and key words while reading.

3. Use recognisable abbreviations / short forms.

4. Don’t write notes in complete sentences. Use key words /phrases from passage or frame your own terms or words.

5. Omit or avoid writing articles, helping verbs, determiners, connectors, etc. while making notes.

6. Avoid repetitions /explanations and descriptions.

7. Keep the notes short, precise, minimum and to the point.

8. Take care of indentation. Write headings, points and sub points with separate indent.

9. Give it the most suitable title. (after understanding the main idea of the passage)

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II. Key to Abbreviations

1. Write abbreviations and their full forms used in your notes. (5-7)

2. Keep abbreviations key in a box. (abbreviation - complete word )

3. Don’t use more than one abbreviation for one point.

4. Don’t include numbers.

5. Include commonly used abbreviations such as - BSc, MP, MLA, UP, USA, FIR, WHO, IMF, pvt., ltd., govt., dr., imp., prog., ml, kg, min., off., e.g., i.e., etc.

6. For longer words - keep the first two or three letters and the last few letters of the word using apostrophe in between. such as edu'n (education), devl'ing (developing), edu'nal (educational), prog've (progressive), alti'de (altitude), comf'ble (comfortable), nut'tion (nutrition), etc.

7. For shorter words - drop vowels from the word such as cntr (centre), mngr (manager), crdt (credit), pwr (power), msg (message), spkr (speaker), etc.

8. Use symbols such as (& - and, / - or, # - number, $ - dollar,  % - percent, no. - number) etc. 

9. Use recognisable abbreviations (that can be understood)

10. Don't use abbreviation for heading.

 

III. Summary (80 words)

1. Use the points and sub points from the notes to write summary.

2. Pick out the important sentences from the passage.

3. Concise the language and the structure of sentences. 

4. Grasp the essence of the paragraphs to write summary.

5. Expand your headings and subheadings to write summary in the specified word limit.

6. Follow grammatical accuracy and sentence structure in summary.

7. No abbreviations are required.

8. Paragraph division is not required.

Format for Making Notes

Title (in centre and underlined)

1. Heading (min. 4 / according to paragraphs)

        1.1 Subheadings or points 

        1.2 ………….

        1.3 ………….

                1.3.1 sub sub headings or sub points if required

                1.3.2 .................

2. Heading

        2.1 …………….

        2.2 …………….

        2.3 …………….

3. Heading

        3.1 …………….

        3.2 …………….

        3.3 …………….

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Marking Scheme

Title                                1 mark

Notes                              2 marks

Indentation                     1 mark

Abbreviations Key         1 mark

Summary                        3 marks

Total                               8 marks