Well, I'm an OLD lady who graduated from college in 1977, but I was also a college prof for a number of years. Suggestions, off hand: 1) Go to class; 2) Take advantage of all the study aids in textbooks such as questions, pictures, graphs, etc.; 3) Use mnemonic techniques for lists such as acronyms and acrostics. For example, "On Old Olympus' towering top, a fat-armed girl vended snowy hops" to cue yourself for the first letters of the twelve cranial nerves; 4) Also, come up with memory techniques such as recalling that the hippocampus of the brain is connected to memory by noting that the word "campus" as in a school campus is in the word. I suggest these examples because medical students actually use these techniques.