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How I Was Able to Ace Exams Without Studying

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Scott Young of ScottYoung.com.

In high school, I rarely studied. Despite that, I graduated second in my class. In university, I generally studied less than an hour or two before major exams. However, over four…

This is why studying never really worked for me. No, really, I’m not being a douche here. True story: I wasn’t doing very well in math, but I really needed to ace it, so I dedicated whole days answering every math problem in our textbook. Come test day, I had a lower grade than usual, even though I aced all my practice problems. (And believe me, I covered every. painstaking. point.) Why? You could say I was overconfident (I do try to be optimistic in all the wrong ways) or that I was nervous and you’d be quite right both times, but I mostly suspect that it was because I forced a different learning style on me than what I was used to, and most importantly, efficient in.