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🔥Best Way to Study & Make Notes For College & Job-Goers || Anish Saha || PrepFusion

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Educational

Main ideas / lessons conveyed

  • The video argues against the common advice: “make your own notes completely from scratch.”
  • Instead, it promotes a study workflow that combines:
    • Pre-made “printable/fair” notes (already clean and complete), and
    • A “rough notebook” for active thinking, drawing, and adding anything the teacher didn’t include.
  • The goal is to study efficiently for GATE preparation while also learning concepts deeply—especially useful for college students and job-goers who must manage time.

Methodology / step-by-step instructions (how to study and make notes)

Step 1: Use provided pre-made notes (instead of writing everything)

  • Access notes from the PrepFusion website:
    1. Go to Free Courses
    2. Select the relevant topic (example shown: Network Theory for GATE 2026)
    3. Open “Network Analysis Complete Notes”
  • Choose between note formats:
    • Printable notes (white background / designed for printing)
      • Useful for hard copy
      • Contains a black/white style that matches the educator’s teaching content
    • Black & white PDFs
      • Useful if you have a tablet/device to annotate
  • If you don’t have a tablet, print the printable notes and annotate using a pen.

Step 2: Prepare two study resources side-by-side while watching lectures

Keep both:

  • Printable “fair” notes (clean, ready to revise)
  • Rough notebook (for active work during the lecture)

Step 3: While watching recorded lectures, actively engage using the rough notebook

  • Do not just read the printable notes while watching.
  • For each concept the educator explains (e.g., a circuit):
    • Copy/draw it in the rough notebook (e.g., draw the RC circuit)
    • Write the key reasoning/thoughts (e.g., what happens at steady state)
  • Process actively so your brain doesn’t “go sleepy.”

Step 4: Add only what you personally understand

  • If you understand something differently than the educator wrote:
    • Add your extra point directly in the rough notebook (or on the printed line).
  • If the educator already wrote it clearly in the printable notes:
    • Don’t waste time rewriting it fully.

Step 5: Keep rough writing fast

  • Rough notes are for understanding at that moment, not for later presentation.
  • Writing “fairly/neatly” wastes time—rough notes should be quick.

Step 6: Revision strategy

  • Use the printable/fair notes for clean revision later.
  • Treat the rough notebook as your modified/added notes, so you end up with:
    • Teacher’s structured content (from printable notes)
    • Your own clarifications and extra insights (from rough notes)

Step 7: Where to get the notes

Notes can be found:

  • On the PrepFusion website, or
  • By joining the PrepFusion Telegram group (notes listed under File Sections).

Example shown in the video (application during a lecture)

  • The presenter demonstrates watching a Network Analysis lecture (from their YouTube playlist).
  • During the lecture:
    • Use the printable notes to see the plotted graphs/circuit already present.
    • Still recreate the graph/circuit in the rough notebook.
    • Write down reasoning like “steady state” behavior and analyze alongside the teacher.
  • The emphasis is on active participation rather than passive reading.

Speakers / sources featured

  • Anish Saha (named in the video title; the presenter/speaker)
  • Himangshu Sir (mentioned as the educator teaching in the demo lecture on the YouTube channel)
  • PrepFusion (website and YouTube channel referenced as the source of notes/lectures)

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