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Justin A's post reminded me of this attitude in high school which irked me. There were a lot of people who didn't do homework or study for tests and then they would say something like "yeah, i didn't study for this test or do any homework all semester! i don't pay attention in class either! oh well!" then a week later they will say "look man, i got a B on that test, and I didn't study at all, it was so easy."

As if their indifferent attitude is the coolest thing ever (plus they are geniuses, they got a B on a test while doing no work), but even worse than that is that these people do their homework and are just making [censored] up. When they said they didn't study what they really mean is they didn't do the extra credit assignment and they ONLY reviewed for an hour or two. Bogus.

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Exactly, it's really just impossible to get some grades in some classes without paying attention in class or doing homework. I mean, where the hell did you learn the material if not from doing some form of work for class?

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Hey Bruiser,

Some people probably really didn't have to study in high school. I went to a private school with hard courses and hard instructors, and I barely had to study, and only for some courses. My senior year advanced calc and logic courses I did a combined three days of work/studying outside of class between both semesters. Lit and History and all my sciences I always had to study a little for, but not that much. Judging by the exams some of my friends would bring home from their public high schools, I very seriously doubt I would've had to study or do work outside of class at all for a lot of those courses. A lot of it will depend on where you went to high school. More will depend on how quickly you're able to learn, do busy work, and remember info for exams by just glancing at it. But it's not hard for me to believe that some people really could get through lower level high school tracks with zero studying or work outside of class with a 3.0.

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Exactly, it's really just impossible to get some grades in some classes without paying attention in class or doing homework. I mean, where the hell did you learn the material if not from doing some form of work for class?

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It was supposed to be from the textbook. If it makes you feel better, I've been studying off and on since I woke up today.

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I was the person you hated in high school, well not exactly. I honestly never did study for a test, although I never thought it was all that cool. It was just the way I learned. For me, sitting and reading the text books or going over my notes never helped me at all. I won't say I never did homework, but I definitely didn't do much my senior year and I would say it bordered on none.

Its not somethign I bragged about, because frankly I'm not a douche bag loser, but I never saw the benefit to studying. Some people do, good for them.

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Justin A's post reminded me of this attitude in high school which irked me. There were a lot of people who didn't do homework or study for tests and then they would say something like "yeah, i didn't study for this test or do any homework all semester! i don't pay attention in class either! oh well!" then a week later they will say "look man, i got a B on that test, and I didn't study at all, it was so easy."

As if their indifferent attitude is the coolest thing ever (plus they are geniuses, they got a B on a test while doing no work), but even worse than that is that these people do their homework and are just making [censored] up. When they said they didn't study what they really mean is they didn't do the extra credit assignment and they ONLY reviewed for an hour or two. Bogus.

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I don't think you're necessarily referring to me, but I will say it is possible to get good grades with either not studying or not doing homework. But you can't do it without doing either. In high school I tended to do all my homework but skip the studying. In college I do the opposite, I don't do any work and skip most of my classes, and then cram before the test. My plan has been partially foiled this time as I have the wrong book from which to cram for the test.

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When they said they didn't study what they really mean is they didn't do the extra credit assignment and they ONLY reviewed for an hour or two. Bogus.

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Having spent less time studying in high school than anyone I know (excluding the group of kids who took more than 4 years to finish school), I don't see anything unbelievable about going through all four years studying for a test.

Math, Chemistry, Physics, English - well, let's just say any class that wasn't Spanish, biology, or history - I never studied for. And by never, I mean a combined 1 hour would be generous for all those classes.

While I know I am very smart, I also know there are many people out there smarter than me. High school bored the hell out of me. I make no apologies. I see no reason why I should have worked harder in school. So why should I begrudge those who were enough smarter than me to have never had to study?

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You never did PM about that thing.

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Sorry man, but in high school I never did homework or extra credit and I crushed the tests. And yes, that makes me kinda cool.

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My grades were fairly average during high school, but that was due to doing absolutely none of the work. The only thing that kept me passing was getting A's on the tests in 80% of my classes yes I did do poorly sometimes, but for the most part I did not study at all. The material is all gone over in class two or three times sometimes, if you pay even a little attention you will be fine. As for history I would say 70% of high school history is re hashing the elementary and middle school history you already learned. In college I do have to study cause I am not a genius by any means, even by Dutch Boyd standards. Also if you took advanced classes in high school this would change my opinion of having to study but if you really didn't want to study in high school you could set your schedule up so you wouldn't have to.

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I was one of these people in HS, but most of my grades were B's in AP classes. Going to class and doing the mandatory homework was enough, I didn't need to study.

The same mentality f*cked me over in college, since homework was no longer mandatory I never did it and always fell behind. Also, I didn't really have a good studying system as well.

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I bet there are lots of people on these boards who barely studied during high school and achieved very highly.

I don't know about the American school system but in England, it was fairly easy to do very little/no work outside of class. In essay subjects, as long as you can write well and have some knowledge, it's pretty easy to appear like you know a lot and skirt around what you don't know. Also if you know how exams work and how they're marked (and by the end of secondary school you should given you've been doing public exams in the same subjects for three consecutive years) then it's pathetically easy to exploit that.

I don't know, maybe some people are lying but I am certain that if you're smart and you go to class and pay attention at the right times, and it's fairly easy to tell from the atmosphere of your classmates when these are, you should be able to do very well on tests in high school with no studying at all.

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Yep. That was me. I might have done 10 homework assignments in 4 years. Never studied. I sorta halfway paid attention in class. I was a B student.

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I rarely did my homework and very rarely studied for tests. I got like a 2.8 or something. Highschool is easy.

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High School was easy man, I use to do the homework the day it was due, and rarely if ever studied for tests. My cumulative GPA for four years was 3.44 and this was at a private school. I think a lot of teachers in HS never challenge their students, but in the case of my school, they pounded you freshmen year but after that it was smooth sailing.

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I think a lot of teachers in HS never challenge their students, but in the case of my school, they pounded you freshmen year but after that it was smooth sailing.

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I went to high school in a rural community. It was very easy, I never studied, instead spending my free time partying and playing sports. However I got my ass handed to me in college due to my complete lack of study skills. I had a roommate who never studied in college outside of homework. He literally sat in the room and played video games every night or went out drinking. He got straight As and was a finalist for one of those big national post-grad scholarships, I cant remember which. Luckily I graduated but it was iffy for a while. Of course my academic performance in college has had no meaningful ramifications since then, other than having to get a waiver to take post-grad courses.

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i hate people that lie about stupid [censored] like that

people lie about stupid [censored] all the time

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I studied tons in HS (sans senior year). I wish I still had that work ethic in college. IMO a majority of the classes I've taken in college (math excluded) are easier than the ones I took in HS.

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I don't remember if I studied in HS, but I went to class a lot in college, on the advice of a suitemate who got 3 engineering degrees, and told me to go to class always, even if I didn't spend much time studying.

I do know that for me to memorize things quickly I need to either hear them (like in a lecture) or make them into some sort of activity, so for example if I had to memorize stuff for a history test the way I would study is to write a paper about what I needed to know.

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I studied tons in HS (sans senior year). I wish I still had that work ethic in college.

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I was the opposite. College was my wake up call and I really liked what I studied.

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I can honestly say I didn't do the homework or study for my honors physics class in high school. My homework portion of my grade hovered in the 20%'s. I didn't study for tests (good thing there were makeups).

But the thing that really boosted me over to a 'B' was the fact that my teacher was the advisor of a school club on campus and I was his star member.

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I didn't need to pay attention or work to get a B average in highschool.
I dont think this makes me especially cool, and I am not making this up.

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notice how this thread ended up attracting all the people you would have hated in high school?

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Okay many of you here are doing exactly what I say.

"I went to a private school with hard courses and hard instructors, and I barely had to study, and only for some courses"

"I always had to study a little for, but not that much."

"that was due to doing absolutely none of the work. The only thing that kept me passing was getting A's on the tests in 80% of my classes yes I did do poorly sometimes, but for the most part I did not study at all."

"Going to class and doing the mandatory homework was enough, I didn't need to study."

See you guys did do work you just don't want to admit it. I'm not saying you have to do all your homework and study the entire night before a test to do good in class, all I'm saying is that you did some work along the lines somewhere. Even if you didn't do the homework, and didn't study for the test I can buy that you did well on a test but you can't then say you didn't pay attention in class too.

And again, when you people are saying "i did absolutely no work" you apparently don't mean that in a literal sense because almost everyone above who said they don't do any work at all went on to qualify that by then saying something like, "just paying attention in class is enough, and doing a little of the HW and maybe studying just 1 hour for a test."

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I didn't need to pay attention or work to get a B average in highschool.
I dont think this makes me especially cool, and I am not making this up.


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Snakerat see, how is it possible for you not to pay attention or do any work and get a B? You weren't born knowing the material for the class so WHERE THE [censored] DID YOU LEARN IT?

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See you guys did do work you just don't want to admit it. I'm not saying you have to do all your homework and study the entire night before a test to do good in class, all I'm saying is that you did some work along the lines somewhere. Even if you didn't do the homework, and didn't study for the test I can buy that you did well on a test but you can't then say you didn't pay attention in class too.

And again, when you people are saying "i did absolutely no work" you apparently don't mean that in a literal sense because almost everyone above who said they don't do any work at all went on to qualify that by then saying something like, "just paying attention in class is enough, and doing a little of the HW and maybe studying just 1 hour for a test."

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Do you have a point? Any point at all? I really don't think anyone would ever say I never did a single homework assignment, or studied a single minute, and wore earplugs and blindfolds to school every day and got all As. Obviously when someone says they did no work, they mean very little. Regardless, let's face it, high school was a joke.

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people exaggerate on stuff like this all the time. when someone says they haven't slept in two days, they generally don't mean it literally.

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I didn't need to pay attention or work to get a B average in highschool.
I dont think this makes me especially cool, and I am not making this up.

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Snakerat see, how is it possible for you not to pay attention or do any work and get a B? You weren't born knowing the material for the class so WHERE THE [censored] DID YOU LEARN IT?

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Bruiser,
I learned very little in school. But I learned to read when I was 2 and probably spent like 6 hours a day reading for the first 14 years of my life. It's not that hard to gaina good base of knowledge that way.

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I was one of these people in HS, but most of my grades were B's in AP classes. Going to class and doing the mandatory homework was enough, I didn't need to study.

The same mentality f*cked me over in college, since homework was no longer mandatory I never did it and always fell behind. Also, I didn't really have a good studying system as well.

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Yeah that was me. Except replace B's in honors and AP classes with C's

I've got a 750 word essay due at 5pm that I haven't started and haven't even read the two short stories I'm suppose to be comparing, instead I'm posting on 2+2 in our school library.

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I didn't need to pay attention or work to get a B average in highschool.
I dont think this makes me especially cool, and I am not making this up.


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Snakerat see, how is it possible for you not to pay attention or do any work and get a B? You weren't born knowing the material for the class so WHERE THE [censored] DID YOU LEARN IT?

[/ QUOTE ] Its called retention. Some subjects stick to me like glue when I just hear someone lecture on them, some subjects I had to study for. Some people simply have really good retention skills. Are you the type of learner that has to write things down? A note taker? Some people in highschool took a lot of notes and all that writing helps for you to retain what you are learning. It may sound pretty silly, but I rarely, if ever studied simply because I either knew it or I didn't. Cramming has never done anything for me.

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I always "got things" really quickly. Literally didnt take a book home. I could hear the lessons in class and "have it" just gifted that way I guess.

One teacher used to get really pissed off. Called my father in for a parent/teacher confrence because I was not handing in homework assignments (freshman year). I was working 6 days a week after school. My father politely asked what I was scoring on my tests and exams. She wouldn't answer, he asked her again. She replied he has an average of "98".

His reply? Why do you think he needs to do homework if he is Aceing every test? Are you that anal that he needs to do 2 hours of homework a night on material he obviously knows?

You flunk him and I'll see you in court.

I aced the course. Go figure.

She still hates me to this day.

The real fun thing about high school was showing up the teachers when you literally knew more than them.

I was required in college to take an "intro to business management" course. I could have tought the damn thing and we had some adjunct prof that never ran a business in his life teaching it. I pulled him aside after class on te third night and politely explained the situation between us ( I pointed out his glaring mistakes) I never showed back up for class and got a "gentleman's A".

Thank god I'm not in school anymore. I have little patience.

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I didn't need to pay attention or work to get a B average in highschool.
I dont think this makes me especially cool, and I am not making this up.


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Snakerat see, how is it possible for you not to pay attention or do any work and get a B? You weren't born knowing the material for the class so WHERE THE [censored] DID YOU LEARN IT?

[/ QUOTE ] Its called retention. Some subjects stick to me like glue when I just hear someone lecture on them, some subjects I had to study for. Some people simply have really good retention skills. Are you the type of learner that has to write things down? A note taker? Some people in highschool took a lot of notes and all that writing helps for you to retain what you are learning. It may sound pretty silly, but I rarely, if ever studied simply because I either knew it or I didn't. Cramming has never done anything for me.

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right but his point is, don't claim you didn't even pay attention in class. if that were true, you'd have nothing to retain.

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Okay many of you here are doing exactly what I say.

"I went to a private school with hard courses and hard instructors, and I barely had to study, and only for some courses"

"I always had to study a little for, but not that much."

"that was due to doing absolutely none of the work. The only thing that kept me passing was getting A's on the tests in 80% of my classes yes I did do poorly sometimes, but for the most part I did not study at all."

"Going to class and doing the mandatory homework was enough, I didn't need to study."

See you guys did do work you just don't want to admit it. I'm not saying you have to do all your homework and study the entire night before a test to do good in class, all I'm saying is that you did some work along the lines somewhere. Even if you didn't do the homework, and didn't study for the test I can buy that you did well on a test but you can't then say you didn't pay attention in class too.

And again, when you people are saying "i did absolutely no work" you apparently don't mean that in a literal sense because almost everyone above who said they don't do any work at all went on to qualify that by then saying something like, "just paying attention in class is enough, and doing a little of the HW and maybe studying just 1 hour for a test."

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Ehhh... During high school I was usually able to pick everything up I'd need for the tests in math and science courses, and English more or less came naturally to me. I acutally studied a lot for history, though, but I tried not to study alone.

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I never studied for tests or took notes until I was in college. I sometimes did homework, but I was pretty lazy about it. I won't claim to be a genius, but I have a pretty good memory (not as good now as it was when I was in high school). Half the time in high school, I didn't even know there was a test that day until I showed up. My attitude in high school was that if I could get a B for minimal work, then I wasn't going to knock myself out to get an A. I'm not proud of this now, but that's how I was. About halfway through freshman year in college, I realized that I was going to have to put a little more effort into it, and I started taking notes and reviewing for tests.

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Sadly, I carried this work ethic over into college. Except, I never really thought I was cool because of it; it was just the way I did things. I think my problem in college was more of minor depression than anything else though. And, of course, the depression was recursive as I got more uphappy about things, my grades worsened and I would go to school and care less.

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See you guys did do work you just don't want to admit it. I'm not saying you have to do all your homework and study the entire night before a test to do good in class, all I'm saying is that you did some work along the lines somewhere. Even if you didn't do the homework, and didn't study for the test I can buy that you did well on a test but you can't then say you didn't pay attention in class too.

And again, when you people are saying "i did absolutely no work" you apparently don't mean that in a literal sense because almost everyone above who said they don't do any work at all went on to qualify that by then saying something like, "just paying attention in class is enough, and doing a little of the HW and maybe studying just 1 hour for a test."

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Studying to me means setting aside time to prepare for a test, or basically doing anything beyond what was mandatory like rereading over notes before a test, going to study sessions before / after schools, etc.

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See you guys did do work you just don't want to admit it. I'm not saying you have to do all your homework and study the entire night before a test to do good in class, all I'm saying is that you did some work along the lines somewhere. Even if you didn't do the homework, and didn't study for the test I can buy that you did well on a test but you can't then say you didn't pay attention in class too.

And again, when you people are saying "i did absolutely no work" you apparently don't mean that in a literal sense because almost everyone above who said they don't do any work at all went on to qualify that by then saying something like, "just paying attention in class is enough, and doing a little of the HW and maybe studying just 1 hour for a test."

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Studying to me means setting aside time to prepare for a test, or basically doing anything beyond what was mandatory like rereading over notes before a test, going to study sessions before / after schools, etc.

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Are we getting into semantics now?

stud·y ( P ) Pronunciation Key (std)
n. pl. stud·ies

The act or process of studying.
The pursuit of knowledge, as by reading, observation, or research.
Attentive scrutiny.
A branch of knowledge.
studies A branch or department of learning: graduate studies.

A work, such as a thesis, that results from studious endeavor.
A literary work on a particular subject.
A preliminary sketch, as for a work of art or literature.
Music. A composition intended as a technical exercise.
A state of mental absorption: She is in a deep study.
A room intended or equipped for studying or writing.
One who memorizes something, especially a performer who memorizes a part: He is a quick study.

v. stud·ied, stud·y·ing, stud·ies
v. tr.
To apply one's mind purposefully to the acquisition of knowledge or understanding of (a subject).
To read carefully.
To memorize.
To take (a course) at a school.
To inquire into; investigate.
To examine closely; scrutinize.
To give careful thought to; contemplate: study the next move.

v. intr.
To apply oneself to learning, especially by reading.
To pursue a course of study.
To ponder; reflect.