I am starting to wonder why I bother. I study History and Politics at Uni, and while I know it will be different for the sciences, I'm starting to see that there is not a lot of point in studying much. Every semester (there's two each year), we have exams at the end, and I make detailed notes on every possible essay I see in the past papers, make notes on them in a paragraph-based bullet point format, and read them again and again until I can rattle them off by heart.
But then, when it gets to the exam, I always end up finding some topic I think looks interesting, and I'll write an essay on that based on my own general knowledge I've gained from reading etc. Like last term in history the general topic course was on early modern Europe, but by chance there was a question on whether or not the development of absolutism in the Three Kingdoms (Britain) was inevitable, and so of course anyone who's seen me in the Backroom or Monastery will know that I had to answer this question, and so I did. And I got 21 out of 22 for it (and my tutor said only 2 people out of the 40 he marked even got A's, which you need 18 for!). Whereas in Politics, which I'm not so interested in, I rattled off one of the standard respones and got IIRC 17 which is 1 mark off an A.
And since this term History focuses on Scotland from the National Covenant up until the Jacobites, I can just tell that I will end up going off in one of my rants which gets me good marks because I actually enjoy what I'm talking about.
This is what Uni seems to be like, its completely different to exams at school where you got marks by sticking strictly to the curriculum. Does anyone else find this?
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