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(JD) · Apr 15, 2009, 01:36 PM

If it's a lecture on information in one of your texts, read the textbook first. Make your own list of questions regarding what you read. This will help you find those answers during the lecture, and if not, you will have cogent questions to ask.

Listen to classical music before any heavy duty study or intensive lecture. This will help you remember and perform better.

When wishing to instantly remember something, visualize the information (question, answer) and look up to the left in your visual field. "Place" the information you will want later into that area (upper left) and "see" it there. When you later wish to find the information, look again up to the left and your brain will have it ready for you.

Learn shorthand. (You probably already use some abbr. for many words.)

Use a recorder if you are allowed. Transcribe soon after (or have someone else do so.)

Ask the lecturer for a copy of her/his notes, after the class. (Hey, it works sometimes. If not, you receive an A for effort in my book!) Tell them that the lecture was so terrific, you didn't want to lose a single word of it.

Pick notepaper that suits you. I do horrible notetaking on standard lined paper... but if those same wide lines are on a yellow legal pad...I do better. I do great with college ruled papers. I do even better with half sheets, long wise. (I tend to keep filling in words and end up with quite a mess if I utilize the entire large sheets of paper.) I also do better if the paper is a pastel, such as pink, which has a natural calming effect for me.