Our repertoire
Mind-map, Schematic, Flowchart, and "The KonMari Method"
Mind-map
Schematic
Flowchart
BetterNote offers a refined way of
studying.
We help students "learn to learn" before university.
We do that by organising
and fostering better study notes. 📝
Not sure where to start? BetterNote StartHere
is a weekly exercise for students in middle school and secondary school. The objective
is to indoctrinate concepts of outlining and revising.
This goes beyond simply writing information down. Students will learn to organise
information such that it remains meaningful over time, and saves time from needing to
relearn. While most people start a day from zero, this is about building on previous
work and forging one's own path.
Want to improve and upgrade your study
habit? BetterNote
ReviseClassNote is a weekly service for students in middle school and secondary school.
The objective is to demonstrate ways to transform raw class notes into tidy reusable
notes, by outlining and revising. This goes beyond the
assigned homework. Students will witness the transformation between raw class notes and
subsequent revisions, as well as the difference that would make on their retention. This
also sets the right expectation that "homework" begins with reorganising the day's
raw class
notes; not the assigned problem-sets.
BetterNote StartHere is a weekly exercise for
students in middle school and secondary school. The objective is to indoctrinate concepts of
outlining and revising, for comprehension and retention.
Students begin by mapping
their surrounding on paper, like personal favourites and daily essentials. Then, they choose
the topics to explore. We review their first outlines, or anything else they have on paper,
then suggest ways to revise them.
To reduce risk of coronavirus transmission, all
engagements will be remote and online. The medium of instruction is English. Other languages
like Cantonese, Mandarin, and Korean are coming next.
$0
$150
per session per week^
BetterNote ReviseClassNote is a weekly service for
students in middle school and secondary school. The objective is to demonstrate ways to
transform raw class notes into tidy reusable notes, by outlining and revising, for
comprehension and retention.
Students begin by sending photos of the raw class notes
and relevant chapters from textbook. We review the raw class notes, then revise them
for comprehension and retention.
To reduce risk of coronavirus transmission, all
engagements will be remote and online. The medium of instruction is English. Other languages
like Cantonese, Mandarin, and Korean are coming next.
$0
$250
per session per week^
$300
per session per week^
BetterNote offers a
refined way of studying.
We help students "learn to learn" before university.
We
do that by organising and fostering better study notes.
Private tutoring is great for answering
questions, like finishing home work or explaining nuances. It compensates for
overcrowded classrooms and pension-waiting teachers. It is effective for filling
immediate needs.
Private tutoring also have a point of diminishing return, after
which there may be side-effects
like over-reliance and passivity. Why
ask questions in class when one could hold them until after-school, out-of-view from
classmates, safe from ridicule? Why make any notes when private tutors will explain on
cue like a pet-trick?
That over-reliance and passivity becomes more consequential
in the first two years of university, when non-trivial concepts are lectured at an
unforgiving pace - in classroom size of up to 300 or more.
In fact, the
examination schedules may be so dense, like three exams in two days, that the final
grades will be evaluations of not just what is learned, but also
how it is studied over the entirety of the semester.
In other
words, there is a tax of over-reliance and passivity that comes due, and it is not
denominated in fiat money. There is simply not enough time, especially
for those on tight schedules with no do-overs. Retention becomes paramount.
So,
we need to
foster self-sufficiency.
BetterNote is
our expression of that pursuit. We help students "learn to learn" before
university. We do that by organising and fostering better study notes, through weekly
exercises and ad-hoc services.
We have free guides and checklists for parents who
prefer "do-it-yourself" (DIY), as well as paid options for those with less
time.
One more point, the insight driving BetterNote, is that those who far
exceed their peers, have a superior relational handle on the material. They achieve that
by spending far more time rearranging and personalising their notes for a visual
baseline; nothing is dangling or out-of-context, resulting in superior
comprehension and retention.
An analogy of that
difference would be the rest of us trying to cook in someone else's kitchen. 😓
Welcome to BetterNote. Knowing
how to dismantle and digest oversized concepts is an essential life skill.
🔧
Some concepts in school are elusive because they require identifying specific
blanks and filling them in specific order.
Peeling back the complexity, by outlining
those blanks on paper, is the key to comprehension.
Moulding that comprehension into
long-term memory, by revising and recapping, is the way to retention. 🗝
I wish
someone had shown me the difference. This is the genesis of BetterNote.
💡
If private tutoring is about finding answers to questions, then BetterNote is
about uncovering the right questions to answer. 🕵🏻♀️
