I'm one of those people who owns an impressive amount of pens and highlighters and takes meticulous notes on everything the teacher says. Even though the teacher provides us with the material that is being reviewed, I will still take detailed notes on everything that comes out of their mouth and further dissect it into more digestible pieces of information. I will then rate the relevance and importance of the information, both the original and dissected version, and color code it to my liking, where the legend of what the highlighted information means only exists in a mental legend, secured by me. I will do these things almost mindlessly as I am excellent at multitasking- I listen to the lecture, refer to the given notes and highlighting and changing colors as needed.
When the time for an exam comes around, I will then look over this my stack of notes- each session's topic neatly separated by colored post it notes or tabs. I take all the information and extract what is needed for the test. This is easy because of my color coded notes. I will compile the important notes into another file titled "review sheet" where I can list out the categories of things I need to study, use the information from the notes I have taken to supplement what is discussed in the book, neatly checking off each segment after I have mastered everything.
If I am lucky, the teacher will allow us to have a cheat sheet on the exam. I will use this to to my advantage. Because I am blessed with the skill of writing extremely small (due to my thorough notes written on the margins of my teacher's notes), I fill out the entirety of the allotted space and, of course, color coding it based on sections of what we've learned.
I am not this kind of person.
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