How to Highlight __ Efficient Highlighting

Hi everyone, in today's video we are going to be talking about how to highlight, so efficient highlighting. Now, this method is very popular among students, however, this seems to be a prevalence of what I like to call the zombie syndrome, which is basically, you read the notes and you're like, uh, whatever, yeah, I don't know, you end up highlighting the entire page. So if this happens to you way too often, I have five tricks that will help you improve If you don't want your notes to end up looking like an enchanted forest, I recommend using only three or actually just one color when you highlight. If you decide to go with the three color option, I highly recommend that you make yourself a legend so you know what each color stands for, and also that you be consistent throughout the entire book. So don't just be switching colors on yourself, because you're going to get confused. So you can just say that green is for theories, blue is for keywords, and orange is for formulas. Personally, I believe that highlighting is not really a stand-alone study method, but it makes the perfect combo. So what I suggest that if you want to maximize the benefits of highlighting, that you pair it with another study method. So what I do is that I highlight my textbook notes. So I already extracted the important information from a textbook into my own words, that is method number one, and then before that, when I review my notes, I use highlighting to emphasize even more the important information. I'm just making this point so that the non-believers of the highlighting method try it as an add-on to their method, because it does work. The number one mistake students make when they highlight is that they highlight as they go. So this is how you end up with highlighting the entire text. What I recommend you do is that you read an entire paragraph or an entire little section first, and then you stop, you think, and then you act. So you read the entire paragraph, you get a gist of what it's saying, and you're like, you know what, the only important thing in here is that key word, all the rest is just like fluff. If you want to be on the show chopped, props to you, but this is not the time to be chopping sentences. One of the biggest advantages of highlighting is that you don't have to read the entire text all over again, you just read the highlighted parts. So don't just highlight bits and pieces here and there, like a date, or a name, or like just the key word. It has to make sense when you read it over again, it has to flow, it has to be kind of like a text on its own. So with that being said, I hope you enjoyed this video, please don't forget to give it a thumbs up if you liked it, and subscribe to me if you like what you see, because I post videos every Thursday. Bye guys!