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by curt 5470 days ago
Greatest day of college was the day I stopped giving a crap about grades. Remember you're there to learn not get good grades. It opens everything up, you don't worry about taking difficult classes that will challenge you or overloading on credits. Took classes in every engineering field, economics, business, history, whatever I "wanted" to learn. Seriously it was the greatest realization I had up to that point in my life, never even opened a report card during my senior year or grad school. If you have a solid foundation to build off of learning new things becomes really easy later in life.

Still don't flunk, a B is fine, usually you can get 80% of the results with 20% the effort. Focus on what's valuable to you and forget about the rest.

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I have stated that marks are not everything. I am just curious on how a (high) moderately intelligent student could do it, because some exams are impossible to get 100%; it seems like hack to me.
Step back from the problem, focus on developing your analytical/problem solving abilities. Any engineering, math, or science problem is just logical reasoning. Don't focus on the subject matter so much, focus on the process. Then you can solve anything