Know and remind yourself of your learning goals and how this content fits into achieving those goals. Intend to remember the information as you hear or read it. 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.