The purpose of the present study was to investigate the actual condition of note-taking as a learning strategy in university students. Participants in the study were 48 university students who attend the lecture. The study's data was 43 participant's completed questionnaires. The study revealed that (1) cluster analysis extracted three clusters from ten kinds of the situational characteristics of lecture in terms of using of the note-taking strategy, (2) the frequency of using of the note-taking strategy depends on the situational characteristics of the lecture, (3) students attitude to lecture is reflected in the note-taking strategy, and (4) frequency of using the chart is the lowest in the all situational characteristics of lecture. On the basis of the results of the study, we discussed the learning method and the research topic in note-taking.