I was in a similar situation to yours. K-12 was easy enough that I did well on test and assignments without ever having to develop good study skills.
So, naturally, when I got to college, I was woefully unprepared to cope. I was at a small institution where 90% of the student body was an academic overachiever in high school, so there were few enough students like me that the university didn’t have a dedicated tutoring place where one could pick up some study skills. Combine that with possible undiagnosed ADD and mental health problems, and it’s a wonder I managed to graduate.
Exactly the same. Everyone told me I was so smart in High School, I’m so incredibly smart, I never needed to study. College hit and I failed my first year. Big fish, small pond for sure.
High School (and college probably) should have set up time for teaching me how to study, and high school teachers (and my parents) needed to back off saying how smart I was. Or at least back it up. “I’m glad this stuff comes so easily for you, be ready for college though, because you’ll be surrounded by people just like you, and they’re expecting even more”
I was in a similar situation to yours. K-12 was easy enough that I did well on test and assignments without ever having to develop good study skills.
So, naturally, when I got to college, I was woefully unprepared to cope. I was at a small institution where 90% of the student body was an academic overachiever in high school, so there were few enough students like me that the university didn’t have a dedicated tutoring place where one could pick up some study skills. Combine that with possible undiagnosed ADD and mental health problems, and it’s a wonder I managed to graduate.
Exactly the same. Everyone told me I was so smart in High School, I’m so incredibly smart, I never needed to study. College hit and I failed my first year. Big fish, small pond for sure.
High School (and college probably) should have set up time for teaching me how to study, and high school teachers (and my parents) needed to back off saying how smart I was. Or at least back it up. “I’m glad this stuff comes so easily for you, be ready for college though, because you’ll be surrounded by people just like you, and they’re expecting even more”