For difficult courses with lots of memorization, try these tips:
Create a study space
- Find a place that you can leave your stuff
- Have all your study materials gathered (textbooks, paper, laptop, pens, calculator, past tests, etc)
- Good lighting
- Quiet
Condense your notes
- Make notes on lectures, textbooks, and readings
- Find past test questions or practice exam questions
- Combine all of your notes on one topic/ section into small flash cards or a single sheet of paper
- shorten the notes your made into lists, key words, short summaries
- include important diagrams/ charts
- relevant test questions and answers
- Repeat process for all of the other sections in your course
- Bring your condensed notes with you to repeat your review as often as you can