Difficulty: Moderately Challenging
Things You’ll Need:
- A notebook and pen or pencil
- A computer
- A printer
- A highlighter
Step1
Attend your lecture every day and take plenty of notes. If you miss a class, borrow notes from a classmate and photocopy them. Don’t worry about memorization at this stage, just get everything down on paper.
Step2
When it’s time to start preparing for exams, start typing up your notes in chronological order. As you type, pay attention to what you’re reading and writing. This simple act of rewriting your own words is one of the most effective stages of the memorization process.
Step3
Print all of your typed notes and read through them immediately. Read them again and make notes in the margins. These notes should include material you remember but did not find in your notes, appropriate categories for all of your noted material and memos to yourself about sections you find particularly difficult or hard to remember.
Step4
Open up your typed notes in your computer and revise them using your handwritten margin notes. Add new material, rearrange the order of your notes for a more logical flow of ideas and highlight the more difficult sections by putting them in a noticeably different but easy to read font.
Step5
Print your revised notes and read them again. From now on, reread them regularly with a highlighter in hand. Highlight the sections that you’re confident you have memorized. Alternate between reading the entire document and just reading the non-highlighted sections. Continue until you’ve highlighted the entire thing.
Novice 
