came here to say "learn tot ake notes" and was pleased to see your comment.

Most of my long term memory came from redoing my notes at least twice from my initial notes (and doodling pictures to go with them) and sticking the hard to remember parts on post its all over my living space. My house was plastered in (colour coded) physics equations in the months leading up to exams :) I got the top score for my year so it must have worked xD