How do you best study for math exams and what grades are you expecting in math this year?

I think that I study better for my math exams, when I take the book home, and get to see the examples directlky from the book, because it explains to you everything step by step. So this is an advantage, because I can actually get the notes from the chapter in the book, and it helps me study, when I can see everything step by step, rather than remembering everything and how we did the things in class. This year I expect to get a higher grade in math class, I think that I may get higher grades than last year, because I can actually study directly from the book, and my notes are all from the book. So this will help me in the exams, because sometimes I look at my notes from class, and say, "How did we do this?" because I dont have the exact procedure. Really I dont expect to get a 7, but I hope I get a 6, because I actually think that geometry is alike to algebra, but you need to be able to visualize things in graphs, and triangles. In general I think I can do better this year than I did last year.