Re the exam, I posted a similar q. You need to come up with a plan of action. What subjects are you studying? Are you comfortable in the source language, if not perhaps additional work in that area grammar spelling style could help.
I have had some success using photoreading.
For me it works best with one-for exercises but I have only been learning it since this November.
If you are new to it like me, I would not rely entirely upon photoreading for academic purposes. Build up your skills with simple materials.The more simplistic the materials the better it seems to work. An advantage of the system is that it does not take very long.
Photoreading in a foreign langauge is more difficult. I find the more familiar I am with the language the better it works.
Sometimes I do have some recall of materials I have not activated but it is rare and the information is minimal.
What I did find was, it was a very useful way of bringing previously read materials to the forefront of your mind.
Some years ago I read Catcher in the Rye a short novel by J.D.Salinger. When I picked up the book I had little recall of the book. It is not a great book b.t.w. Yet I photoread it and one hour later I could remember the plot in some detail. I had similar experiences with other novels previously read such as Andorra by Max Frisch and some play by Sartre.
