To help you remember what you read you must read with a purpose. Start by developing questions that you hope to be able to answer at the end of your reading. Review topic headings in your text before reading. Outline information covered in each paragraph. All of these tactics will help you pay attention to the material you are reading and will reduce the need to re-read pages.
New memories can interfere with other recently learned information.
The deeper you process information the more likely you will be to retrieve the information at a later time. Deep processing involves attaching numerous associations to a piece of information. Use all your senses to enhance storage and retrieval of information. To memorize a list put together a sentence in which the first letter of each word represents an item to be remembered. Short, snappy, specific mnemonics are best.