farrukhsadiq

from your second point I think taking your own notes is definitely good.
I didn't take any notes for level 1 but if I pass, I plan on to try taking my own notes for level 2

farrukhsadiq

+1 I agree with the above posts. Especially the "personal preference" note. Different approaches work for different people.

I found that typing up the notes and then printing them out worked well for me. I would often find mistakes, or improvements, and amending the notes and reprinting was easy to do. I soon realised that typing can be a slow approach (if you're not a speed typist) so I instead used my home printer (which has OCR) to scan the notes and then copy and paste them into Word. Then it was just a case of summarising the notes to reduce the page count from say 20 (average reading in Schweser) to about 3 or 4 pages. And this was the part that really worked for me! By paraphrasing the notes I had to understand the material (you can't summarise something unless you understand it first) so by paraphrasing the text I was forced to understand.

I did go on to use the notes, e.g. studying on the commute to work.

P.S. I studied Ethics last so only found out about the copy write rule at the end of my study, and by then it was too late :-)



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