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I've a very limited working memory and thus at university lectures my choice as I saw it was either (1) trying to understand the content, or (2) taking notes.
by wapapaloobop 11y ago
I've a very limited working memory and thus at university lectures my choice as I saw it was either (1) trying to understand the content, or (2) taking notes.
Looking back, it never occurred to me that notes written without comprehension were unlikely to be good. Yet without notes the finer, unofficial details of the exam syllabus would not be recorded.
- ZeroGravitas 11y agoA few people have made this same point and the thought of this being true, and it very likely is, genuinely makes me angry. What a waste of time and effort and human potential to have hundreds of bright young minds, sitting for hours just to catch details that could have been written down years ago in a shared textbook and tested on a shared exam. Across the globe this must squander centuries of human progress.