We recently introduced a few active reading strategies to help you focus on mind-numbing reading passages. These strategies include asking questions, summarizing, and marking up passages. These strategies will help you out on any test, but Sparkler nap_attack offered the following suggestion for getting through a boring textbook reading:

If you're trying to read a textbook instead of a standardized test, read aloud using funny voices. You'd think that this would distract you and you would remember nothing that is being read, but it mysteriously works, for me at least. But do not try this during the SAT or you will probably get kicked out.