Some ideas from the OU...
Developing visual material can help your recall and also be a quick way to show lots of information. Practise drawing diagrams if this suits your course, and make sure you provide clear labels as these can earn you marks in the exam.
Visualisation helps you remember - two examples are trying to picture where you’ve left your car in a car park, and thinking what's inside your cupboards when writing a shopping list.
Mind maps
Mind maps help you to generate ideas and make associations. They can also act as a powerful memory aid in an examination because they are visual.
The main principles are
note down points in a spray pattern, starting from the centre and working outwards
keep your points brief – use key words, authors, theories or processes
use lines to show connections between things
be prepared to re-work the map until you are happy with the organisation
include colour, symbols and pictures to make it more memorable.
This link helps you to make a mind map.
Learning posters
You may find that, rather than reducing notes to small summary cards, you prefer to produce large posters detailing key points on particular topics. Use flip-chart paper or stick several pieces of A4 together. Use pattern, colour, diagrams and drawings in your posters and display them in parts of your home where you might have an opportunity to gaze at them for a few minutes now and then and absorb the information. One student we know put them around the bathroom!
If you have a strong visual memory then lively posters really help the remembering process.
TOP TIPS FOR VISUAL REVISION
Recopy notes in colours
Visually organise or reorganise notes using columns, categories, outline forms, etc.
Remember where information was located in visual field
Create timelines, models, charts, grids, etc.
Write/rewrite facts, formulas, notes on wall-hanging, bedsheet, poster for visual review at any time
Facts, formulas, notes on index cards arranged/rearranged on wall, pin-board, floor, bed
Use of colour-coded markers or cards for previous two above
Use of visual mnemonics
TV/video supplements important for understanding or remembering
Use of "background" visual activity helps you to concentrate
Use of highlighters
Near memorisation of chapter/notes