Cramming is also cheating. I got a phone call walking me up about 15 minutes before my maths AS level, not because I was up all night cheating either. The teacher who put me down a set didn't seem impressed when I blagged a B with zero effort or revision on that and they thought I'd get an D or E. A lot of tests are relatively easy to pass without knowing all the things if you understand how the tests work, bit of multiple choice and covering all the bases on the other bits and you're sorted to a degree of sorted for a slacker. You'd probably have to be actually smart or try hard or both to get top marks though. I'm pretty sure my "methods" would've failed me if I'd bothered to try further education, but education never seemed as interesting as learning to me, or getting wreaked.
All of that is no help however to all the kids currently getting fucked over though.
Cramming is also cheating. I got a phone call walking me up about 15 minutes before my maths AS level, not because I was up all night cheating either. The teacher who put me down a set didn't seem impressed when I blagged a B with zero effort or revision on that and they thought I'd get an D or E. A lot of tests are relatively easy to pass without knowing all the things if you understand how the tests work, bit of multiple choice and covering all the bases on the other bits and you're sorted to a degree of sorted for a slacker. You'd probably have to be actually smart or try hard or both to get top marks though. I'm pretty sure my "methods" would've failed me if I'd bothered to try further education, but education never seemed as interesting as learning to me, or getting wreaked.
All of that is no help however to all the kids currently getting fucked over though.