Usually, I only take notes on key points and definitions.
When studying for a test, I give myself two notecards, and I reread everything throughout the section. The notecards are small enough that they force you to only take notes on the most important sections, and often times, those are the things that come in tests :)
I would say love and death
Chinese immigration to America increased at a high rate during the 1850s.
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