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I strongly disagree with trying to condense to a very compact form. You almost always will lose information and understanding that way. Remember; the devil is a
by rramadass 5y ago
I strongly disagree with trying to condense to a very compact form. You almost always will lose information and understanding that way. Remember; the devil is always in the details. However engaging in the act of condensing called "Precis Writing" is very vital and a must. Just make sure to do it in conjunction with a Textbook and logically to whatever level feels comfortable to you (a page or two is fine).
- nine_k 5y agoThe point is different. The act of "compression" puts less obvious key points to the paper, allowing you to more easily memorize the more obvious parts. The whole exercise is about committing to your memory more and more of the "easier" stuff, while extracting the few "root" ideas and a few least obvious points / formulas to write down.
- rramadass 5y agoYou have to be careful with this (see also the comment by user "akomtu" in this thread). When you know the subject already and you are just adding more on top, it may be helpful to reduce the new ideas to Keypoints/Keywords and hang the details off of them in memory. But when you are new to the subject you do not as yet know what to omit and what to keep; you are making a judgement call during "condensation" and thus it behooves us to be careful so as to not lose the core ideas which is bound to happen if you try to "compress" too much.