Rewrite the materials as you wish they were! I cannot tell you how many times I sat through a boring sociology class (my major at the time) imagining how I would do "school"/education in my perfect world :-) One tip; I had to read a book and write a report on it but could not get into the book because it was like reading an echo; I already knew what it said (from other stuff) but I had to read it to know I'd already "read" it? LOL What I did was write the report on how the book was written! I did the structure of the book and how it was laid out and what it was attempting to do and how successful that was, etc. -- it looked like I knew the book cover-to-cover when I only knew it literally, the covers and the pages and their ink Talk "about" something if you don't quite know the specifics, or, in my case, you know the specifics but don't know you know them. This was an upper level socy course, with several grad students in it and the professor graded the papers himself instead of having a grad assistant do it, etc. and I almost fell out of my chair because I got an A- and I had not read the book, had "faked" it the night before.

Do a lot of writing, both with your imagination and about your school work; writing comes in real handy, the practice will make you a good writer so you can "fake" it well and writing about what is difficult or boring or just to figure out -- "what is this?" will teach you problem solving for any subject. Writing is just a "word problem" -- so, if you are good at Algebra or (as I found out late, for myself) accounting or doing taxes, in other words organizing/structuring things, use that along with your imagination.