Makes the transition from secondary (high) school to post-secondary school education particularly brutal since you've never really had to work for something and

Makes the transition from secondary (high) school to post-secondary school education particularly brutal since you've never really had to work for something and have no idea what good habits look like. Reading the material before the test/exam and then getting high enough marks that everyone leaves you alone so you can go play with computers/chess was not an effective long term strategy. College (UK meaning not US) came as a brutal reality check.