Do not leave the task of remembering to test or exam time. It is responsible for processing information to make it understandable, meaningful, and useable. Short term memory has a limited capacity . Overload can happen very quickly. Information disappears quickly from short-term memory.
Information is held here for only about twenty seconds.
It's the kind of memory you use when you look up a telephone number. Processing of the information must happen in short term memory. Be prepared to reread information, to ask questions to clarify the information, to get help. Make it meaningful . Work to make sense of the concepts, rather than trying to memorize them.