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Yea, I was always good at math but shit like that made me hate it. Like you said I either understood the concept or I didn't. Having a higher volume of problems wasn't going to help. The funny thing was, later on in high school, my english teacher gave me a list of all the assignments we would have that semester with how many points they were worth so I went through and figured out what I would be a able to skip (pretty much all the stuff that I'd have to get in front of the class for) and still pass. She did not give a shit about it other than initially being concerned that I was failing really hard for a while because most of what I skipped was at the beginning. I told her what I was doing and she was just like "... well ok if that's what you want to do...". I