agreed — in school-school my teachers would even forgive my assignments and give me lenient marks given i had such great test scores and could articulate the material very well   in college it just didn’t fly anymore — professors don’t care at a large selective school you’re just one of a million brains to them the tests were based off the homework — but with caveats — and were so strictly timed it’s impossible to “think through” and provide satisfactory answers f in assignments and bc’s on tests results in a d no questions asked  and they wouldn’t provide lecture notes or homework solutions even after the hw was done out fear that students would share them means hw  test questions wouldn’t be reusable  thankfully i’ve been getting my ass kicked by a planning coach and my parents and found that i do produce output i’d sporadically get hyper-focused on assignments too just some forced discipline and temporary pain can make all the difference