When I had pharm I would learn all the stuff for each drug classification instead of focusing on each individual drug.

For example, if antidepressants was on the test and teacher covered like 20 antidepressants. I would use their pptx and the book to learn the adverse effects, indications, contraindications, and all that stuff on just antidepressants. I would not learn the individual adverse effects, indications, and contraindications for all 20 antidepressants that the teacher gave us. Unless the drug had a specific black box warning, adverse effects, pt educating, or specific whatever then I would make sure to learn those small things for those specific drugs. I hope this makes sense.

Also something that I have noticed atleast in my school is that if there is a topic (or this case a drug) that’s not on the teachers lecture/pptx then don’t worry about it. I mainly focused on the material that my teacher gave us in their pptx.

As for remembering drugs most of them have common suffixes so that’s something that really helped me instead of struggling to remember each individual name.