i was pretty smart in hs but liked to handicap myself. so i would never study just try to pass from what i could recall in class. this was a mistake. i did well but could have done better if I had even remotely tried. In hs I always respected smart people but felt all their incessant studying kind of was unfair, made the competition less balanced on pure skill and memory. it would be better to have a rule against any studying, just have people retain as much as they can , then take the test. this could incentivize closer attention paying and would help thin out the weaker minds.

in law school, though, studying actually was required. except for the really smart people.