Why the split matters more than the summary
Most revision goes wrong the same way: hours spent memorising things that only needed to be understood, and minutes skimmed over the handful of terms, dates and formulae an exam expects back verbatim. Both feel like work. Only one is aimed at the paper.
Definitions, named laws, formulae and dates are recall items — there are no marks for the gist. Mechanisms, causes and comparisons are the opposite: memorising a sentence about them gives you nothing when the question reframes the situation, while understanding gives you an answer to a question you never rehearsed.
So the notes name which is which. It is a small structural difference and it changes where the next two hours go.