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.
It’s mostly how I made it through school/university. I just don’t remember things for very long and found it’s just easier to study 1-2 hours before a test so it’s still fresh in your mind.
For bigger tests, maybe create a summary of things that may be asked and go over that just before the test.
I almost never did homework.
My grades were never great but enough to pass.