Making notes

[Mummythehammy]

My daughter as asked me to write up her geography notes for her. Should I be doing this? She is in year eleven and finding it extremely difficult to find time to catch up with geography
What should I do

Teach her touch type!

I think writing them up is part of the learning process, she’s reading them back...perhaps if you can type ask her to read them out to you while you type them up then get her online to learn to type?

It's a tricky one .. she keeps putting it away on her things to do list and it will never get done .. nah she will hv to do it herself at some point .. too much work .. but it's her work

The whole point of writing up notes is to process them and embed them. If you do it it will be pointless.

She does her own notes for other subjects but I am worried she might get v poor grades in this subject if it builds up

I agree that you should help her in other ways. Writing up the notes is incredibly useful as part of the learning process. Learning academic independence and organising her time is one of the most important lessons she can learn at this point. You wouldn't believe how many undergrads are completely incapable of functioning without parents help. By all means sit down with her and write a plan of what needs to be done/when she can do it. She'll find she does have time if she's organised.

I'd also add that's it's actually a massive benefit to have the notes in her own hand writing.

I agree completely and am backing off

I assume she has just finished year 10 and going into year 11. It would be good to get them done now as DS basically did his just before his mocks and wished he had done them earlier.

But defo her not you I meant to say. It is the best way to get things into your mind.

she needs to write up her own notes. Then annotate them. Pointless you doing it.

Reservoir dogs
How much work did that involve ? How many hrs did it take to do the notes?

A good week (of school holidays) to tisy them into some order and rewrite.ones he felt weren't good enough. Was pleased he had done it when it came to Easter and full on revision started. Awaiting results now

I'm confused.
Why is she 'writing up all her notes' in the Summer holidays?

Is this not something you would do after each lesson, if it needs doing?

Do you mean she is copying out everything she has written in Year 10 ?

My son's were a mess, stuff missing, scribbled out during lessons so he just put them into an order, wrote up the ones that were scruffy or illegible and compared them to his text book and did some if there were gaps.

Yes rewriting year ten notes

A whole year's worth of notes?
In one go?
For each subject?

How come ??

Just geography

She would be better off using a "self-testing" format like Quizlet.