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1. Write your notes in a way where you can test your retention and understanding.

2) Notes can be used like flash cards. Stimulus then response. But the stimuli are to the left of a margin, while the responses are to the right.

Cornell notes. Stimulus in the margin. Answers can be covered with a piece of paper.

2. Develop the ability to become an active reader. Don't just passively read material you are given. But pose questions, develop hypotheses and actively test them as you read through the material. I think the hypotheses are part of what another poster referred to when he advised that you should develop a "mental model" of whatever concept they are teaching you. But a mental model can be much more than simple hypotheses. Sometimes the model resembles a story. Other times it looks more like a diagram.