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After Light got the Death Note, he started writing criminals' names and
killing them. Even after L made his first appearance and said that he would
find Kira, then Light was thrilled up and accepted that as a challenge.

As we all know Light was the 1st performer in his academics from the start.
But when he got the Death Note, then he was certainly spending a lot of time
on planning how to kill, and also observing how the Death Note works. But even
after all this pressure of killing and L coming to find him, he maintained his
academic performance.

So does that mean Light was so talented that even without studying he was able
to come first in his academics, or was he spending enough time in academics as
well? Is there anything specified in the anime or manga about how he was
managing his time between his studies and by writing names in the Death Note
so that he would not get caught?


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How was Light able to maintain his academic performance?


Light was the top in his class is academics and also in tennis, which just
goes to characterization to express the point that he is the all around A+
student. On top of all that Light also works as a civilian consultant for the
police and he employs his amazing logical deductions to help him solve crimes.
Again this goes to show that Light is extremely intelligent, very hard
working, and can multi-task exceptionally well. There is a scene where L has
Light's room bugged and Light is using one hand to do his math home-work while
his other hand writes names to kill people, as if it were nothing. Light was
able to keep up his grades because the tests and work he was doing was beneath
his intelligence and might as well have been "what is 2+2" because that's how
easy Light's classes were to him.

Over time Light starts to go psychotic as the stress finally gets to him and
he's trying to get all suspicion away from him as he tries to kill L and I
believe that's because Light has never really been challenged or stressed
before; for the first time ever Light is having a hard time controlling the
situation and at first he enjoys having to actually try but as the series
progresses he fades into madness as he can't control the situation and he
refuses to accept that as an answer because he is used to being on top of
everything and never getting over-whelmed.


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I also think that in one episode, he tells Ryuk that he cannot just keep
writing names in the notebook. He has to study also to keep up with his
grades, and I think he tells Ryuk that he spends part of the day on academics
and uses the rest of the time for writing the names. It's been some time since
I watched _Death Note_ , but I guess that this is what he did, and that he
could not let his grades drop since that would also lead to suspicion.


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