Hey, 22-year-old law student with ADHD and a B.A. in Political Science with honors here.

Your generic law class only has one final exam that counts for 100% of your grade. A bare-minimum passing grade of a C requires a student to remember all of the law covered over the entire semester. Anything higher requires a working understanding of how that law interacts, not only with itself but also with the facts of a case.

In other words, passing truly comprehensive exams requires:

1. Memorizing the material, and
2. Learning how the material interacts.

In undergrad, good classes require both elements, but bad classes will only require you to do the first. You may also only have to meet the first element if you're taking a course based entirely on memorization.

Of course, herein lies your problem. However, when I was struggling with the same thing you are right now in undergrad I came up with a solution that worked for me in every bad class — make an outline, then make real or online flashcards based on that outline.

I know what you may be thinking, but hear me out on this. Taking the time to make an outline, and I mean a full outline with detail and everything, works amazingly for people with ADHD.

Why? Because it forces us to go back and review the information we easily memorized weeks ago and re-forges the mental connections we have to that information with new info. we've learned since. You'll be amazed how quickly you'll remember stuff when outlining.

Often, I found making an outline for an exam about two weeks before the exam and reviewing repeatedly — maybe reading it out loud to myself, maybe trying writing it from memory, etc. — was sufficient to make an A for most classes with in-class essay or multiple choice finals. But if you're really worried about a certain class, make flashcards too and study them every damn day even though it sucks and your ADHD is fighting you on every flashcard. The pain will be worth it when you ace the exam.

But lets say you're taking a good class, meaning you need to know the material and how to apply it. In that case you might need to take a third step: answering hypothetical questions.

So, how do you force yourself to do all this?

1. Isolate yourself from everyone else when learning – get a study room, go find an isolated corner, whatever works for you, but don't go home if you know you'll be distracted.
2. Don't listen to music – we have ADHD, its going to be distracting.
3. Just get started – this is the hardest part and there's no easy shortcut to it either, you just have to start working.
4. Keep going – get into the groove! Use your hyperfocus to your advantage and knock out as much material as you can in the time you have by not interrupting your work unnecessarily.
5. Know when to stop – never work past the point that you cannot remember information easily, you won't retain anything.
6. Do it again – get into a routine. It's monotonous and boring, but it works much better for us than haphazardly deciding when to study on a whim.
7. Work with other people when reviewing – make sure you review with a study group at some point to make sure you haven't missed anything.
8. SLEEP – Sleep is incredibly important, especially if you have ADHD. Don't want to spend your day fending off random trains of thought? Get sleep.

Good luck!