mathematician
HSC deadline looming and last couple of exams to pull up your grades?
Give yourself more options. You don't have to be able to photoread to get passing grades.
Go back to your teachers and get them to help you learn what they are teaching. Tell them you're not getting it. Ask them what you should be studying / focusing on. Get them to tell you "how" to learn it.
Yes knowing self hypnosis would help... Now consider this. Book learning isn't your strongest point. If it were you would be going through your courses with ease. So it is highly unlikely that you will learn hypnosis from a book before you improved your book learning skill. You'd be adding an excuse to further procastinate on your studies about. (I have to learn this first and then I can do my assignments) Frankly you haven't got the time.
For the same amount of money you can purchase a tape which, for you, could be a more productive option. There are plenty on the market. You can even find them in book shops. Alernatively you could get the Get Around To It paraliminal... to get motivated into "doing" your studies not just thinking about it.
Personal Genius and Memory Supercharger are also excellent paraliminals for learning, both for photoreading and studies in general.
Quite honestly I believe that these will get you further than trying to learn hypnosis from a book.
Since being able to be relaxed while learning helps with learning, play baroque music while studying or even Mozart (strings apparently are best). Even nature sounds can help.
If you want to use photoreading there is only one thing you need to remember.
There are 5 steps to photoreading and you apply them in the sequence given.
1. Prepare.
2. Preview.
3. Photoread.
4. Activate (multiple passes)
5. Rapid Read (if required)
If you are a 'white belt'(new to photoreading) in photoreading you do each step, the only thing to 'get right' is doing each step as best your can. If you are a 'red, green, or yellow belt' in photoreading, you still apply the 5 steps - to the best of your ability.
Trying to find short cuts to learning cost you more time than using the tools you already have and getting on with it and getting it done. You add new 'tools' when you have the time near the beginning of a project to experiment with them.
Alex