If you aren't up on the Study Hacks blog then this may be the best tip for you yet.
http://calnewport.com/blog/2010/03/15/how-to-become-a-star-grad-student-james-mclurkin-and-the-power-of-stretch-churn/
Start there and then keep reading. Make sure you read the part about knowing how well you should know the material. If you can teach the material, then you know it well enough. Don't just learn it well enough to turn in the homework. If someone comes to you for help, and you know that they have put some time into it and they have the general idea, then you have a moment of synergy. Take that moment to teach it to them and you will both benefit. Then let that person teach it to someone else.
In the medical field they call this watch one, do one, teach one.
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