I have an assessment later in the month which will include the TRFS - the literature provided suggests writing things down as you go and that is honestly how I have "revised" for tests in the past. Having queried techniques in another forum though, the following post was interesting from someone who has a PHD in learning and memory...just wondering what the thoughts are here (from those who have taken the test and know what it's like to be faced with 10 mins of text):
Don't bother trying to train your memory - it doesn't work. Focus instead on what you do during those 10 minutes. Don't bother making notes, for instance, because that doesn't actually help memory very much. Instead, test yourself. Read the text, write down questions based on it, cover the text, answer the questions, and review them with the text. Just do that as much as possible. Both generating and answering questions are pretty reliable ways of engaging with the material and increasingly the likelihood of being able to remember it.
Another recommendation: draw things that you might need to remember (very quickly, it doesn't matter if they're ****).
Don't bother trying to train your memory - it doesn't work. Focus instead on what you do during those 10 minutes. Don't bother making notes, for instance, because that doesn't actually help memory very much. Instead, test yourself. Read the text, write down questions based on it, cover the text, answer the questions, and review them with the text. Just do that as much as possible. Both generating and answering questions are pretty reliable ways of engaging with the material and increasingly the likelihood of being able to remember it.
Another recommendation: draw things that you might need to remember (very quickly, it doesn't matter if they're ****).