CHAPTER 6 & CHAPTER 7

CHAPTER 6: TAKING LECTURE NOTES 

Lecture notes? Is it important?

College academic achievement is mostly dependent on taking effective notes in class. Actively taking notes in class might improve you in concentrating and improving your understanding. Your active listening, content understanding, and memory will all increase with effective note-taking!

It's also important to read the notes before class. This will help in your understanding of the subject. Get yourself familiar with concepts and vocabulary too! ☝

Here's a result of my note taking strategies task!

For this task, I got 6 out of 10 points, which is better than the previous task. However, I also need to improve my strategy in note-taking. 👌

There's this one method of note-taking that's really famous among students! It's called 'The Cornell Method'.

What's Cornell Method?

Cornell note-taking is a popular note-taking method for taking, organizing, and summarizing notes. This method typically results in better overall comprehension. This note-taking method was invented by Professor Walter Paul of Cornell University in the 1950s.

For the next task, here's an example of Cornell Method:

CHAPTER 7: ACADEMIC INTEGRITY &

PERFOMANCE

What is plagiarism?

An act of trying to reclaim another author's words or ideas without their permission and passing off that person's writing as one's own, usually by failing to provide proper credit to the original author.

Examples of plagiarism:

1. Submitting someone else's work as your own

2. Not putting a quotation in quotation marks

3. Providing false information regarding a quotation's source

4. Using a source's sentence structure while changing the words but failing to attribute it

5. Whether you provide credit or not, using a source's words or ideas so frequently that they make up the majority of your own work

Let's move to calculating GPA (Grade Point Average)! This is the last task of this chapter and subject. 👍

Task 14: GPA Worksheet

1. Calculate the GPA for Amelia Ameer for her first semester.

2. Calculate what would have happened if Amelia had earned a B in Chemistry.

4 x 3.00 = 12.00

Total credit = 17

Total points earned = 52.0

GPA = 3.06

Her GPA would increased.

3. What is the difference in GPA?

3.06 - 2.75

= 0.31.

Now calculate Amelia GPA for the next semester:

4. What would happened if Amelia had received a D in Cell Bio instead of B+?

1.00 x 4 = 4.00

Total credit = 18

Total points earned = 41.01

GPA = 2.28

Her GPA would decreased.

5. What is the difference in GPA?

2.80 - 2.28

= 0.52.

6. What is the difference in CGPA?

1st Semester, 46.68/17 = 2.75

2nd Semester, 50.33/18 = 2.80

2.80 - 2.75

= 0.05.

7. What does Amelia have to do in order to achieve  a GPA of 3.00 in the 2nd semester if her CGPA falls below 2.50 in the 1st semester?

Amelia needs to achieve at least B+ in Intro Physics I and Writing in Biology in order to get 3.00 in her 2nd semester.