During my freshman or sophomore year my high school pushed this system really hard, making it mandatory to turn in your Cornell notes in many classes. The syste

During my freshman or sophomore year my high school pushed this system really hard, making it mandatory to turn in your Cornell notes in many classes. The system was atrocious and nobody could stand it. I'm not sure if the reason was that they were forcing us to write notes and evaluating their quality or just a flaw in the Cornell system, but I really struggled to find much merit in the types of notes I was taking after. In my experience, it added a lot of clutter and a lot of work but I never actually went to look back at the summary section (which doesn't make a ton of sense for most subjects) or recall column. Based on studies though it looks like the system has very little positive effect if any, so not entirely surprising.