LAURIE: Oh... I am really worried about the exam. I have no idea what will be on it.

SUE: Why? Just read your notes.

You can see what the professor stressed in the lectures.

Probably the exam will ask about things he stressed.

LAURIE: Yes, but my notes are all nonsense. I can't figure out what is important.

SUE: Let me see them.

Are these all the notes you have?

LAURIE: Yes.

SUE: But Laurie, how can you do well in school if you don't take more notes?

LAURIE: What do you mean? You think I don't write enough.

SUE: I'm sure you don't write enough.

Look at this. Here you wrote:

"Russian Revolution. 1917. Bolsheviks. Real revolution, or coup?" And that's all?

I remember he lectured for a half hour about that question.

And you didn't write any of it!

LAURIE: I know, but I listened.

SUE: Yes, but did you remember? You need good notes to help you remember.

LAURIE: I suppose you're right. But what can I do?

I don't know what to write down.

SUE: There are different things you can do.

For one, the university offers a special free course on note-taking.

You should go to the course. Also, I am pretty good at taking notes.

I can help you on this exam.

I will photocopy all my notes, and you can compare them to your notes.

Then maybe you will see what kinds of things to write down.

LAURIE: That would really help me, Sue.

I appreciate it. All this makes me feel like an idiot.

SUE: Don't feel that way. I know you are very smart.

Note-taking is a special skill. All students need to learn it.

Some people are very smart, but they just haven't learned how to take notes yet.

I'm lucky because I had a good English teacher in high school.

She taught me how to take good notes. It's not hard.

LAURIE: Alright. University and high school seem very different to me.

I suppose I just need to learn how to manage lecture classes. Then I will do better.

羅芮：我真的很擔(dān)心那個測驗(yàn)，我不知道會考些什么。

蘇：為什么呢?只要念你的筆記就好了。

你只要看教授上課的重點(diǎn)。

很可能考試的題目就是他上課的重點(diǎn)。

羅芮：是呀，我的筆記都是無意義的東西，我搞不清楚什么是重要的。

蘇：讓我看看。

這是你所有的筆記?

羅芮：是的。

蘇：但是羅芮，如果你沒有好的筆記你又如何拿到好的成績呢?

羅芮：你這是什么意思?你認(rèn)為我寫得不夠多。

蘇：我肯定你寫得不夠多。

看看這里。你寫的：

“蘇俄革命運(yùn)動。1917年。布爾什維克。真的革命運(yùn)動，或是政變?”就這樣?

我記得他在課堂上談了半個小時這個問題。

你一點(diǎn)都沒有記下來!

羅芮：我知道，但我有在聽。

蘇：對，但你記得嗎?你需要好的筆記來幫助你記憶。

羅芮：我想你是對的，但我該怎么做?

我不知道該寫些什么。

蘇：你可以做幾件事情。

像是，學(xué)校有提供關(guān)于如何記筆記的免費(fèi)課程教導(dǎo)。

你應(yīng)該參加那個課程，另外，我在記筆記方面也很在行。

我可以幫助你這次的考試。

我會影印所有我的筆記，你可以把我的筆記跟你的相比較。

或許你會知道什么事情是該記下來的。

羅芮：那真的對我?guī)椭艽?，蘇。

我很感激，這些讓我感覺像個白癡。

蘇：別那么樣想，我知道你很聰明。

記筆記是一種很特殊的技巧，所有的學(xué)生都應(yīng)該學(xué)習(xí)。

有些人很聰明，但他們只是還沒有學(xué)到該如何記筆記。

我很幸運(yùn)因?yàn)槲以谀罡咧械臅r候有一位很好的英文老師。

她告訴我該如何記好的筆記。并不難。

羅芮：好吧，大學(xué)和高中對我來說是很不同的。

我認(rèn)為我就是需要學(xué)習(xí)如何安排課程。我就可以做得更好。