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If a professor is lecturing off of bullet-point-style slide decks, I suspect that the benefits of taking notes by hand are reduced. I always handwrite my notes, and I've found that I learn better from trying to understand diagram-based slides than from copying bullet points summarizing what's in the diagram. I'm sure this isn't exactly mystical to most of you; trying to understand a diagram requires you to think, while copying down bullet points does not.


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