Your suggestion is a good one. I am currently in college and when I need to remember a large amount of info I write down what I need to know on index cards. Then I go through the index cards five at a time. I do the same five cards over and over again until I've got them down then I move on the the next five- once I've got the next five I GO BACK to the first five and review them. I repeat this process until I've learned everything. If the material is really complicated I do only three cards at a time.This is time consuming but it works.