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’m a good test taker. I would get zeroes for not doing my homework, but then get a high enough grade on the tests to balance it out.
I was never great at memorizing details, but if I understand something, I can usually “logic” my way to the right answer.
For example if you asked what year did the civil war start, I wouldn’t be able to tell you, but if you asked what war started in 1861, I’d know it was the civil war.