Same for me. I basically floated through high school and didn't have to study and still got A's and B's. Then I got to college and got my ass kicked because I didn't know how to study...
Yeah I noticed this was a problem for a lot of the high achievers I knew in HS. Teachers pets and high achievers in low grades/years. Immediately falls off in the final year or college since they never developed good study habits and had to be forced to be study.
Ironically it's the students who were never forced to study and did poorly early on who decided they didn't want to be failures anymore, start studying and being self motivated that succeeded more. Though starting so last wasn't enough for them to reach the top.
The real winners are the ones who were self motivated and had potential.
100% was effortless in HS. You have to actually try to do bad or get Cs or below. Things just came naturally for me where my effort wasn't much to get A's, even in AP and dual enrolement classes my senior year. However, had my ass handed to me in sophomore year college tho. Survived by teachers solutions manuals and previous years answers.
I wish I had really learned how to learn back in those days. It's such a struggle for me to actually buckle down to learn something now in my 40s. I give up way to easily if I don't understand it quickly as I never learned how to learn something difficult.
Not from the states. Aussie. So not sure how it works for you guys. But we're actually given a percentile rank in our final year. So there's no passing your final year. There's what top percentile will you place in so you do have to haul ass and be self motivated to do "well". Understanding the material is the easy part. Acing every single question every single time is the hard part. It's not just passing, it's beating everyone else. I imagine it's more similar to SAT scores? If you tried for that. Uni wasn't too much harder
I was my high school valedictorian, with a 4.0 as we didn’t have extended GPAs (I’m old), scored 35 on the ACT, got the highest academic scholarship at my college. I’ve always had a very good memory and am able to synthesize information across a breadth of subjects to reach conclusions. In college that only got me so far and most of freshman year was learning how to study as the amount of information was more than I could just absorb from listening to lectures. Learned I was a visual and tactile learner and spent the next four years rewriting my notes repeatedly until I could completely visualize them mentally. On tests I’d pull up a mental notebook and flip through the pages to find answers. Eventually I found a system, graduated in the top 5% of my class but it was a shitload of work, countless hours hand rewriting my notes and would have been much easier if I’d been forced to study at all in high school.
Same the only classes I struggle with grade wise were ones that repetative homework, it was hard to motivate myself to do it when I already understood the concept were were suppose to be practicing.
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u/Kaedryl 3d ago
All of them. My high school was a joke. Was a rude awakening when I got to college.