This is what you should be looking at today (despite its age), particularly if you are one of my students:

• Geek to Live: Take study-worthy lecture notes — “Copying class notes after the fact is a time-consuming way to study for an exam, but it was the only thing that truly worked for me back in college. But next week I’ll be in a classroom again for the first time in 8 years, pen poised over notebook, and this time I’m going to perfect a strategy that gets my notes right the first time: the Cornell Note-taking method.”