Try never having to study until your junior or senior year of college. By then the skill set needed for studying was so far removed from my abilities it was an extreme struggle.
This is a result of giving awards for participation, lack of intellectual competition in the formative years, No Child Left Behind, coercion of teachers to simply pass students regardless of scholastic performance or behavioral issues, etc.
Before me and a friend were randomly picked to do some tests. I was above average when we got the results. That was also in grade 3 though. And now I'm lucky if I get on the honor roll
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