When you get to College, you are expected to read and take
notes from a wide range of text books assigned for the course.  However, note students especially the
freshers in college do not have the skills for note taking. Taking notes is a
skills that one is taught when they get to college. Here are some tips that
will help you on how to take notes from text books:

When you get to College, you are expected to read and take
notes from a wide range of text books assigned for the course.  However, note students especially the
freshers in college do not have the skills for note taking. Taking notes is a
skills that one is taught when they get to college. Here are some tips that
will help you on how to take notes from text books:

1).. You need to understand what you need to take from the
textbooks you are required to read. Knowing what you need from the book is a
key factor is extracting information from the big chunk of detailed data.

2).  You need to create
a skeleton outline of the textbook you are reading and the informational

3). You need to learn to skim the book for important
information. This means that you must develop the skills for choosing, reading
and extracting only important facts  that
are relevant to your area of studies and research.

4). You read and paraphrase the contents into your own words.
It means that you must peruse the information and put what you have read into
your own words.

5). After writing your notes, you can now check for errors by
editing the work and making sure they fit into what you are looking for.

6). In your notes you can insert pictures, graphs and charts
to fit into what you are writing.