idk where he want to school or what he majored in, but if he could study for an hour and ace the exam, it seems that he didn't really need to be taking that cou

idk where he want to school or what he majored in, but if he could study for an hour and ace the exam, it seems that he didn't really need to be taking that course in the first place. (Why not just be self taught?) There are a lot of reasons for getting straight A's, and if you are reasonably smart it is easy to game the system at a university and take courses where you will only have to study for an hour or two (either looking for easy professors, easy subjects or both). But if you look beyond the grade, it probably isn't worth it to take those courses. I personally measure my intellectual growth in terms of how painful something was for me to learn. If something is really hard and I am struggling, I know that I am working at the appropriate level of difficulty. I can see how (if these techniques actually work), they would be nice to apply to stuff like foreign language.