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.
Similar for me but with ADHD. I never studied, could barely pay attention in class unless I was reading comics or something, and consistently got high grades. In one of the physics classes I got a 99 on the midterm and 100 on the final.
10 years later, I struggle to read through a design doc. Academia and real world are very different.