You may ask, “Who are you to be offering advice on study strategy?” My answer is: I was a professor at some excellent universities (UCLA, the Univ. of Illinois, Ohio State Univ.), and education and learning have been my lifelong main interests. My students rated me very highly on end-of-course questionnaires that went directly to school administrators and eventually to the student body and me. My students’ written comments on those questionnaires were especially informative. Those questionnaires led one college's associate dean to say, “You may be the finest instructor I’ve ever known.” And I've written 2 books on education. One is titled Education and Its Management. The other one, titled Success and Formal Schooling, has the stories of 118 persons who have achieved great things despite little or no formal education.
Anne Sullivan (Helen Keller’s teacher and an educational genius) said, “There is no education except self-education.” I agree. The first day of each semester I told my students the following:
I’m not a teacher; I’m not here to teach you anything. I’m a helper; I’m here to help you learn. I want you to read chapter X (X denotes any individual chapter we will cover) and work the assigned problems before I cover chapter X in class. Thus, I want you to try diligently to learn the material on your own. Then come to class with questions you have after that diligent effort. If my in-class explanation of Chapter X does not answer your question, then ask me in class or during my office hours to address your question. No one knows everything; so if I don’t know the answer to your query, then I will say so, and I’ll research the matter. Once I have an answer, I’ll share it with you and the rest of the class.
That method of learning works! I used it throughout my student days.