Step 3:  Examine the highlighting to identify the kind of material the professor
              thinks important.

Number of items on test

Where the information appears

Objective

Essay
- - only appears in the text
- - only appear in the lecture notes
- - always appear in both
- - generally comes close to section headings
- - generally appears in captions to pictures or graphs
- - generally appears in the vocabulary notes in the text
- - generally appears in bold type
- - generally appears in the review questions in the text

        Once you've identified where the information comes from, make sure you 
        emphasize those parts of the the text and the lecture notes in your study.

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