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There were a (very small) handful of students at Caltech who would do well on the tests without doing the homework (or even attending lectures). Hal Finney (yes, that guy!) was one of them.

I certainly was not.

> for kids like me, we'll succeed im school as long as there aren't active roadblocks from staff

I did get some roadblocks from some the staff. I did well in spite of the staff's efforts :-) My biology teacher disliked me (for good reason, I was a jerk), and told me he was going to be very hard on my grades. If an assignment was subjective, he'd give me a bad grade. If it was objective, he was forced to give me As. Fortunately for me, nearly all the assignments and tests were simple checkboxes.