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[Kriminal99]

I will try, but part of the problem for me is that what I know is right isn't easily acceptable to others.

In a sense I am a fly by the seat of your pants type of student. Have you ever taken a class perhaps as an undergrad that was so easy that the difference between a good grade and a bad grade was 5-10 minutes of study time? What does dilligence even mean in such a situation? In this case it is clear to me that dilligence isn't the issue, rather it is just an issue of how well what it is shown what is expected of you so you will do it.

How is it different really when the class is more difficult? Might it be true that "lazy students" are often just caught unaware of how much work they were supposed to do to succeed.

I understand the claim that there is supposed to be some level of effort a student is supposed to put forth in order to succeed. But my question is where is that level exactly? What if a professor expects you to memorize page numbers? or memorize tangent ideas that are not exactly relevant to the material? If the professor wants you to focus on important ideas, just which ideas are important.

I notice some professors end the class with the people in it understanding 90% of the material and having good grades, and then another professor fails a bunch of people and gives others poor grades but his highest scoring student knows less than the other classes lowest scoring student...