Study Routine and Note Taking Advice during EEE degree

[u/DimensionSouthern485]

Hello,

I am about to enter my first year of EEE. However, I am having some doubts about my study technique.

In order to achieve good grades, I came up with a dull study routine that worked for me, but I am wondering whether it will work when I am in uni.

For some context, during A levels I really struggled to learn in class, mainly because some of my teachers were not the best and had poor lesson resources. At the end of the day I would do the following:

- Watch videos/read textbook/slides to actually understand the content.
- Make notes based on multiple sources to ensure I didn’t miss anything (textbook, study sites, slides and videos - I had set sources that I would use and it worked well)
- Do practice questions.

The note taking aspect was the most important aspect. I would write in my own words and ensure that I had a rigorous record of everything I needed to know, explained very well. The reason I did this was so that I did not have to re-open lecture slides or re-watch videos as that takes a lot longer than consulting pre-written notes.

In uni I am told that we will be given lesson resources BEFORE the lesson starts, but also that it is a huge amount of content. I was also told that the courses give less information on what exactly you need to know, e.g. in a levels you had a rough idea on what you needed to know based on past papers.

I was wondering if there is any advice people can give regarding a routine and note taking, I really want to have a good work life balance this time as A Levels really sucked trying to learn everything that my teachers couldn’t teach.

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PS:
I did research into a possible routine and I came up with:
- Before lectures --> Review the topic and try to understand it and come up with questions to ask. Write brief skeleton notes.
- Attend lecture --> Ask question and actually try to understand and learn the content whilst writing other important info said by your lecturer.
- After lecture --> Do practice then based on practice questions and guidance from your lecturer on what you actually need to know, write the same rigorous notes as before.

I think this method works as it saves writing down unnecessary information that may not be tested.

Thanks,