If your textbook has a vocabulary section, a glossary, or a list of terms, make sure that you understand these completely.

Posted by ANAND P S on April 22, 2013, 2:48 p.m.

You don't have to memorize them, but whenever there is an important concept in a particular field, there is usually a special term to refer to it. Learn these terms, and be able to use them easily, and you will have gone a long way towards mastering the subject itself. (Besides, teachers frequently draw from these lists as a quick and easy way to make up test questions!)