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This is a case study to elucidate an association between consecutive interpretations and stratified note-taking. Stratification in note-taking is limited to diagonal and parallel types in this study. It was possible to derive several significant conclusions from the results of analyses on both voice files of students in consecutive interpretations and survey questionnaire. First of all, although it is not always concluded that an objective assessment result indicates the quality of interpretation, the group of people, who answered that an effort was made for note-taking stratification, showed much better result in interpretation. In addition, this group actually exhibited that their note-takings were systematically stratified well. The top three students in terms of overall assessment all belonged to the group that made an effort for note-taking stratification and three students with the lowest assessment were all in the opposite group. An education for note-taking should be started as early as possible in the specific pattern. However, an education is possible only for several principles and learners need to develop note-taking with the most appropriate way for each of them afterwards. Furthermore, they should make an effort to improve their skills on consecutive interpretations from various perspectives other than note-taking.