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.
As someone who did this, I just found the material quite easy. You need a good intuition for math, and the ability to place the learning material in context. It can work against you though, I had some very bad learning habits, and when I struggled with a topic I would go from 10/10 to 3/10 real quick. And to this day I still struggle with writing reports, fortunately I only need to do this once every couple of years.