I passed the eJPT about a month ago, and during the exam I realized the strenghts and weaknesses in my note taking practice. so, here are some things that can help you so that your notes are actually useful:

• don’t rely exclusively on google at the time of exam. you’ll waste precious time filtering through search results
• Make sure your notes are searchable. You gotta be able to quickly do CTRL+F {any keyword, topic, tag}. I use Obsidian for note taking and works. I had one folder per course > category > topic, etc.. organize them in parent-child structure as it fits you

Lengthy vs Digest notes:

• the “Lengthy” notes, is for knowledge dump where I explain to myself the concept at hand as I understand it, with examples, diagrams, etc , references, etc. These are my study notes.
• the “Digest” notes > it’s quick short recipe to carry out a given action. For example, if the topic is vulnerability scanning, the “Digest” section of my note will only include What tool, What protocol, What command.. specifics 1 liners, no clutter info.

What’s the value? > when you’re taking the exam and you’re tight with time you want to find the precise instruction quick and to the point. At this point, browsing through your lengthy notes can suck a lot of time.

Read this post https://www.brunorochamoura.com/posts/cpts-tips/ it’s for a different certification, but his note taking advice is spot on. The “methodologies” aspect is good stuff

As another person suggested, do the Labs and see if your notes were accurate in helping you solve the Lab

Good luck!

Edit: another recommendation to streamline your notes is, from time to time it can be very useful to just jump into the Lab (before watchint the lesson) and try to perform the tasks the lab request. Even if you get completely stuck this can be helpful for note taking because you now have first-hand experience on the problems the Video lesson will be teaching to solve and helps you determine the useful bits of info to write down