It’s currently university exam season in my country. My roommate has quite literally not come to university at all the entire semester except for mandatory stuff; hasn’t studied at all, doesn’t even have the coursework, 0 notebooks or folders, etc. We’re more than half done with the exam session and he got 10/10 (max grade) at each exam. He just read through my coursework the day before the exam for a bit & that was it. When I ask him he says he uses intuition, logic and reading between the lines to understand the “patterns”. I just don’t understand how you can use “intuition” for microeconomics & math applied in economics for example. I know for a fact he doesn’t cheat cause in his mind cheating is too much effort.
I have always had a fairly easy time with multiple choice answer tests. Most of the time, they are poorly designed, such that often there are two obvious wrong answers and a 50/50 just assuming 4 options. If one then applies related knowledge or concepts, further narrowing the guess, likely to get at least a 75%. I too have been fascinated by this and looked into exploring why. Intuition seems as good of an explanation as I can think to call it too. I could have tought most of my undergrad program and didn’t apply myself for my MBA with a 3.95 GPA. I don’t think that it makes me or your friend necessarily smarter, just the way that each person processes and retrieves information. Also most of economics is made up, so that helps…just not for Modeling… lol
Microecon and math applied in math weren’t multiple choice. Micro had a theory portion (mini essay basically) + problems. Math was problems only. The other subjects (management, accounting, business law, etc.) had multiple choice but there could be 1,2,3,4 or all correct answers.