Note Making

How to Make Good Notes:

❖ Read the passage quickly but carefully. Try to understand the main points and

supporting details. Underline the key words as you read.

❖ Organize your ideas into main headings, sub-headings and sub-sub headings (if possible).

❖ Write the headings in BLOCK LETTERS and underline them.

❖ Make meaningful notes using main points and essential ideas.

❖ Indent your notes properly.

❖ Complete sentences should NOT be written – use brief phrases.

❖ You can omit prepositions, helping words etc. But not at the expense of clarity.

❖ Organize notes in a systematic manner.

❖ Give the notes a title (in CAPITAL LETTERS).

❖ Use a minimum of 4 abbreviations but not more than 6.

❖ Give a key for the abbreviations used. The key should be given after the notes and before the
summary.

❖ Use recognizable abbreviations – for eg. Govt. / Demo. Writing first 3-4 letters and last letter can
abbreviate some words.

Govt. - government

Edu. - education

Admn. - administration

Obsn. - observation

Use symbols - for example

- increase
i.e. - that is
>

< - decrease
 viz - namely

SUMMARY WRITING:
● On the basis of the notes that you have made, write a
summary in one paragraph. This should not exceed 100
words.
● Do not use abbreviations in the summary.
● The title of the summary should be the same as the notes.

Title for notes & the summary: Make a title that sums up the main idea of the
passage in not more than 6 words.

Sample Notes & Summary:

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Cosmetic surgery is the latest beauty mantra in India, as more and more people
want to look young and feel good. Be it a crooked nose, cleft lip or excessive
body flab, cosmetic surgery can correct it all. Moreover, in the last decade, the
popularity of medical tourism has soared among people in developed nations
due to the elevated cost of healthcare in their own countries. A career as a
cosmetic surgeon entails years of training and developing exceptional skill.
However, once established, clients will flow in. Cosmetic surgery entails
specialization in a wide variety of areas such as rhinoplasty (nosejob),
abdominoplasty(tummy tuck), otoplasty (ear surgery), chin, cheek, and
liposuction.

The level of education is expanding in the field of medical science, and the
demand for cosmetic surgeons in India is at an all-time high. Cosmetic or
aesthetic surgery is a fine tuned branch of medicine and requires intensive
training. After an MBBS degree, students would have to pursue a three-year
Masters in Surgery (MS) degree and decide upon their area of specialization.
The MS degree involves a house job, a junior residency and a senior residency
for one year each. Students then have to give a dissertation for approval to the
university, after which they can sit for the MS examinations. Aspiring cosmetic
surgeons need to specialize in plastic and reconstructive surgery, also known as
[Link] degree. Another option after MBBS is the Diploma National Board (DNB),
which is parallel to the conventional medical system and offers various
specialization options including plastic and cosmetic surgery. The basic
requirement of a cosmetic surgeon is an elevated sense of aesthetics and
beauty. A sense and perception for the perfection of the human anatomy is vital
in cosmetic surgery.
During their practising years, students must aim to train under renowned
surgeons in the field, and soak up as much as possible from their expertise.
Being an apprentice to a good surgeon will not only give you the much required
exposure to the reality of the cosmetic operations but will also build your
confidence and client base. The practising years are crucial because in cosmetic
surgery, perfect results are essential.

Medical science is not a stagnant field, and hence one must also keep abreast of
the latest in the field of cosmetic surgery. The biggest profit for a truly
dedicated cosmetic surgeon is the beautiful result of his work and the client’s
satisfaction. After training under reputed cosmetic surgeons, one can either
seek employment in a hospital as a full time surgeon or open up a private clinic,
or do both. If you are good, people will come to you.

Word of mouth is the best form of advertising for a cosmetic surgeon.

(460words)

a) Make notes on the passage given above in any format using recognizable
abbreviations. Give a suitable title to the passage.
b)Write a summary based on the notes you have made in about 80 words.

COSMETIC SURGERY

[Link] OF COSMETIC SURGERY

1.1 Look good, feel young
1.2 Incr. in medical tourism

[Link] OF COSMETIC SURGERY

2.1 Rhinoplasty
2.2 Abdominoplasty
2.3 Otoplasty

[Link]
3.1 Intensive training
3.2 MBBS followed by MD/DNB
 3.3 MCH - further specialization
3.4 Aesthetic sense
3.5 Sense for perception

[Link] OF APPRENTICESHIP
4.1 Reqd. exposure
4.2 Build confidence & client base
4.3 Keep abreast of latest trends

[Link] COSMETIC SURGERY

5.1 Satisfied clients
5.2 Pvt. Clinics

COSMETIC SURGERY
Summary to be written using the notes- one paragraph of 80 words.

PASSAGE 2
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow:
Cycling survives as a popular pastime because it yields pleasure and benefits. First of all, cycling
provides exercise, the need of which is felt by most people. The development of machinery
tends to deprive us of adequate opportunities of expending energy while earning a livelihood.
Other opportunities should be created through the medium of sport. Of cycling, many people
hastily say that it is ‘hard work’, but a fit and practiced rider does not agree with this verdict.
The art of easy cycling must be cultivated, as will be shown later, but once it has been
acquired, a long day’s run should not unduly tire a rider endowed with a normal measure of
health. Nobody has better described the exercise of cycling than the late Twell Brex, who said
enthusiastically, speaking from experience: “You move along by your own glad effort”.
Many of us wish to use our legs and our lungs, as well as our eyes. An active, healthy person
ought not to be content to travel always as a mere passenger – “like an image pushed from
behind”, as Stevenson says. That is not life. Those who would turn all active cyclists into
sedentary motor-drivers, or into idle passengers, would serve the nation better if they restricted
their attentions to the aged and infirm, for whom petrol generated propulsion is doubtless a
blessing, and may be a necessity.
It is often said that the cyclist cannot travel as far or as fast as the motorist. Admitting this, the
cyclist may be permitted to ask if it is always desirable that travel should involve modern
motoring speeds (or accidents). Is the enjoyment of the traveller in search of pleasure to be
measured merely in miles, or, what is worse in miles-per- hour, or what is worse still, in miles-
per-gallon? Surely the cyclist, pedalling calmly along at a modest twelve miles an hour is able to
assimilate scenery more easily, more completely, and with more enjoyment, than the hurrying
occupant of a car! Cyclists believe that their method of travel is a sensible and convenient
compromise between walking and driving. If bicycles were unobtainable, most keen cyclists
would become walkers rather than motorists.

There are at least two distinct types of cyclists. The exercise of pedalling provides an all-
sufficient satisfaction for one type. This is the purely athletic rider who travels in long, fast
rides, in time trails and other forms of strenuous competitions and sometimes attacks records.
This type of cyclist goes into strict training, develops leg-thrust and perfect ankle action and
thinks nothing of pedalling at twenty miles an hour. The other distinct type is the tourist, who
takes no interest in racing but a deep interest in the countryside and the pageant unfolded by
the open road. Comparatively, few cyclists are interested in both racing and touring.

(a) On the basis of your reading of the passage, make notes on it using
recognizable abbreviations wherever necessary (Min 4) use a suitable
format. Supply an appropriate title.

(b) Write a summary of the passage in about 80 words.