A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week 200

He explained to me the following: a) Most faculty create their exams by referring to what they had covered in class; hence if you had “good notes” you could recall everything a professor had said in class; and b) many students make the mistake while listening and taking notes of not writing down any repetition by the professor of key points. That is a terrible mistake. Why? Because repetition reveals those key points the professor thinks are most important, and hence, as Dan argued, those were most likely to be on the test.

— from the chapter “The All-Important First Year of College” in Launching the First-Year Experience Movement: A Founder’s Journey by John N. Gardner

 

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