{"id":1264,"date":"2015-02-24T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T17:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2020-12-10T13:46:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T21:46:29","slug":"toefl-tuesday-taking-notes-on-the-toefl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/toefl-tuesday-taking-notes-on-the-toefl\/","title":{"rendered":"TOEFL Tuesday: Taking Notes on the TOEFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Tuesday again! Enjoy this week&#8217;s TOEFL Tuesday video.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZmoWSpzvum4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are a total of three sections on the TOEFL that require you to take notes. Well, the notes aren\u2019t exactly <em>required<\/em>, but they are massively helpful, so I definitely recommend that you take notes!<\/p>\n<p>Those three sections are the <a href=\"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/the-best-tips-for-note-taking-on-the-toefl\/\">listening<\/a>, speaking, and writing; remember that some speaking and writing tasks are based on conversations and lecture that you heard before giving your response. Notes can be helpful for reading for some students, but we won\u2019t address that here. The most important notes are on recordings that you listen to.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Why Are Notes Important?<\/h2>\n<p>The recordings on the TOEFL are not extremely long\u2014there is nothing over 6 minutes\u2014but they can be very <em>dense<\/em>. In other words, there is a lot of information in a short time! If you lose your focus for just a moment and start thinking about something else, you will miss information that may be very important. Taking notes helps you to stay focused on listening to the recording. In order to take notes, you have to constantly think about the main ideas that you are hearing. Trying to find the main ideas helps to keep you on task.<\/p>\n<p>Notes also help you remember those details, of course. Even though the recordings are short, it is pretty easy to forget an important detail without the notes to boost your memory.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The Best Notes<\/h2>\n<p>Taking <a href=\"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/the-best-tips-for-note-taking-on-the-toefl\/\">awesome TOEFL notes<\/a> is all about finding a balance. If you take too few notes, you may forget important information or lose focus. If you take <em>too many<\/em> notes, you might miss some important information, because you are thinking about what you are writing, not what you are hearing.<\/p>\n<p>So you want to write down the maximum amount of information that you can without missing any information. One way to do that is to write notes more quickly. For example, use symbols such as $ or \u21d2 instead of words. Don\u2019t write long words such as \u201cexclusively\u201d; instead, shorten them to abbreviations like \u201cexc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And if you realize that you\u2019re writing notes about one topic, but the speaker in the recording has moved on to <em>another topic<\/em>, stop what you\u2019re writing and listen instead! It\u2019s okay if the note is hard to understand\u2014only you need to understand it, and only for a very short time. <\/p>\n<p>As a general study strategy, it helps to find the comfortable amount of notes for you, then to <em>push yourself<\/em> and take more notes than you\u2019re comfortable with. Keep practicing with shortened words, and only write the main ideas, not all the details. The more practice you get, and the more you push your limits, the better!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Tuesday again! 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Those three sections are the listening, speaking, and writing; remember [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13602],"tags":[13621],"ppma_author":[13628],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prep","tag-video"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.7 (Yoast SEO v21.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>TOEFL Tuesday: Taking Notes on the TOEFL - Magoosh Blog \u2013 TOEFL\u00ae\ufe0f Test<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It&#039;s Tuesday again! Enjoy this week&#039;s TOEFL Tuesday video. &nbsp; There are a total of three sections on the TOEFL that require you to take notes. 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