I recently stumbled across a new system of note taking on wikipedia which looks interesting.  It’s called the Cornell Note Taking System because it was originally developed and used by a professor there.
The basic idea behind it is to summarize as you go:

On the right side of the page you take regular notes
On the left [...]

Reprinted from edufire.com.
I’ve spent thousands of hours teaching in my life. A good chunk of that time has been focused on helping to prepare people for various exams including the SAT, the ACT and the GMAT (while working for Kaplan) and for various technology exams while working at a Microsoft training center. In addition over [...]

When the term evolution is brought up, people automatically think about Charles Darwin and his theory of natural selection. Indeed, it is quite a powerful theory that has triumphed over all the other theories of evolution. However, back in the day when evolution was a hotly debated topic, Lamarck’s theory of use and disuse put [...]

Quizlet is a very cool little website that allows you to quickly create flashcards and quiz yourself on them.

You can also test yourself in other ways such as true/false, multiple choice, matching, and written answers. 
What makes it particularly useful also is that there are already over 300,000 “sets” of flashcards made for common test questions. [...]

Ever wonder how “smart” people seem to memorize everything the night before an exam?
Sure there are a few rare people who are born with a natural gift for memory (for example, the 2004 World Memory Champion Ben Pridmore memorized the order of cards in a randomly shuffled 52-card deck in 31 seconds). But for [...]