I encourage flash cards and my exams are always preceeded by non graded mock exams. I had discovered highlighting was ineffective becasue if they did not find the area right away they asked their neighbor (or skipped the info) and then two people missed the next point who asked their neighbors ect. ect.

I find it strange that mental pictures did not rate higher. I like to associate things with pictures so that if they temporarily can not pull out the right term they might be able to pull up the image and get the information to pop back into… >>>