FWIW I think exactly the same way. Since I was in high school I remember not studying a lot for the exams the day before. This was maybe a combination of me bei

FWIW I think exactly the same way. Since I was in high school I remember not studying a lot for the exams the day before. This was maybe a combination of me being lazy or uninterested and because I thought that whatever I did not know "by heart" at the time I won't learn in 5 hours. Still, I got out of HS quite fine, I got a BSc with highest GPA of my generation and went to do a PhD in Comp. Sci. Nowadays I have to do interviews quite often and I although I use some of the "programming riddles" (there is so much you can test in 1 hour phone interview) I usually try to "read" the most I can from the guy I am interviewing.