I built up an association graph kind of like you. If I remembered about A it reminded me of B, C, and D (or vice versa). One of the tricks I learned was too con

I built up an association graph kind of like you. If I remembered about A it reminded me of B, C, and D (or vice versa). One of the tricks I learned was too condense the beginnings of these graphs into their own set of keywords that were relatively short. Then I kept repeating these keywords in my head over and over until we were handed our test papers. First thing I did was too scribble out the beginnings of each graph. That way if I do forget something I can refer to it. Usually that was enough to remember the details that I forgot.