My first bit of advice is to repost this message in the PhotoReading forum.
I don't know why, but I think that PhotoReading can help you. Lots of people turn to PRing when experiencing and academic crisis. This normally makes it more difficult to learn to PR, by trying to learn two things at once (PR and you course work) while being stressed.
My advice is to use the relaxation instructions from the PR course and just use the direct learning method to help you with your studying. Don't try and achieve the conscious activation. Just use the all the PR steps for Direct Learning before your study sessions and notice how after a while you are becoming more and more comfortable with the course material.
Do post in the PR forum too.
You are perfection.
Iam2 