Follow bblast's RC approach. Its really great

Taking more notes helps you to comprehend and remember things better. Its mixed approach of kaplan (gives importance to where to find what, author's view, no notes), manhattan (road map notes, and author's view) and princeton (paraphrasing each paragraph, no notes). I have tried out every approach but nothing matches with note taking. Wish bblast had posted this a bit earlier (i read the post while reading your debrief), it would have saved lot of time for me
If you are looking for practice questions try RC99 or OG10 RCs if you have it. OG10 RCs are quite good and have more number of questions.