Originally Posted by
Cyndia
If you're getting bored/falling asleep while reading it - rewrite it or summarize it as you read it. If you're keeping yourself busy by recopying over your notes or by summarizing them it'll hopefully keep you from falling asleep. It also helps your remember the material.
What subject is this you're mainly talking about by the way? If its something like math, doing problems over and over will help you get better at it, and if its something thats more memorization based like biology, rewriting the notes like I mentioned above (doing it on the computer is easiest) will help a LOT! And Charl-Night's idea of notecards is also really good. :)