MAKING BULLETS NOTES FOR CSS

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MAKING BULLETS NOTES FOR CSS

The more elaborative, thorough and comprehensive your first reading is, the more you will learn, and the lesser time you will need to revise that subject later. Now some candidates ask if they should make notes or not. Making good notes is an open secret of success of candidates. Making notes is a part of preparation for CSS Exam and other
competitive exams. The luxury of making full–length notes is available to those only who spend more than 7–8 months preparing for CSS Exam. If you can organize the material on your books by marking with pencil/pointer etc. that should work, that will be your notes. But if you still want to write something from your own hands (some people can‘t survive without it, including me) you can make Bullet Notes. In Bullet notes making, you need to highlight the facts and figures. For a 4 page answer, you
can easily write 10–15 different and unique points. Where complete notes include the information as well as analysis, bullet notes only contain the information. Bullet points help you in preparing for your MCQs as well. One page bullet notes greatly assist in
building Pictorial Memory. That‘s what you need. Good Notes ensures high grades in the examination. Questionnaires filled out by successful students show that 80% candidates attribute their success to good notes. Making good notes is a skill.

THE IMPORTANT PROPERTIES OF HELPFUL NOTES.

A. Easily understandable
B. Easily revisable
C. Save time – because you don‘t have to read book again for learning them

D. Refreshes key points of topics
E. Help to learn how to present answer in answer sheet in befitting way, to get
more marks.
F. It contains collective information of books or guide books
G. Increase your interest
H. Notes are written in your own hand writing, you feel acquainted to them and you pick up easily.
I. It gives you food for thought.

TAKING NOTES FROM BOOKS

It is really important to understand the technique of notes making. If you have at least two books for any subject, it is better you open both for taking notes. The syllabus should be followed. Don't read a book from beginning till the end. Only the related topics should be studied. In this way, try and prepare your own notes about every subject. Get focused on each sentence while you study. Extract key points from each paragraph and write it down. Write down the important information from both books which help to remind all the explanation attached to the topic. Do write the technical terms used in book, you need to memorize these terms so your notes should contain it. Write down the definitions. Definitions are very much important you can write it in your own words but you can‘t its idea. So your notes should have them. This period must continue to enhance your English abilities too.

SHAPING NOTES:

The notes should be shaped in a proper way so that it can be properly used in
future. Shaping notes according to the question format of exam helps you
present you answer in befitting way.
Candidates preparing for CSS Exam prefer writing notes in points.

Bullet notes

should be very compact, yet very detailed notes of every article, with the whole chapter covered on 2–3 pages at max. Write the main headings, write the keywords contained in that heading in front of it in bullet form, and move to
next heading. Make sure you put all the headings you made on book on the
paper. Bullet Notes satisfy the craving of making notes plus they come handy
during revisions and during the exams when you do not have the time to go
through the books. A cursory reading of these compact notes can get it all
refreshed in your mind.

WHATEVER YOUR METHOD IS BUT ALWAYS REMEMBER SOME POINTS FOR MAKING
YOUR NOTES USEFUL.

1. Use heading and sub–headings
2. Use abbreviation and short words
3. All the lines or paragraphs should be in proper sequence
4. Skip the unnecessary explanation
5. Write in good handwriting
6. Make easy diagram or table for long description
7. Write page number on each page if you are use loose pages for making notes.

8. Notes for different subject should be separate. Never write notes for different subject on one page or in one note book which has no separation line.

9. Keep your notes in a safe place because you use it many times during
preparation.

10. If you are using a note book or register for making notes, it is good. Write on each note book, the name of subject of note it contain.

11. If you are making notes on loose pages, write page number on each page. Keep all pages in a folder and write name of subject on its folder.

START WRITING NOTES

Start with the books according to paper point of view. Use them to make the basic structure of your bullet notes. But don‘t forget to leave a few pages for additional note–taking after each topic. For research based books, you better get them online or in hard, skim through them, and only get the relevant material for quality arguments and add them to your bullet notes. The books for general reading would expand your horizon and give you a deeper insight regarding your subject.