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Quite a lot of Germans learn quite a lot. German schools expect quite a lot from students that do actually want to go to better schools. But yes, it is possible to slack through it all if you want to slack.


Heavily depends on where you went to school.

Bavaria, Saxony, Baden-Württemberg? Preferrably Gymnasium? Preferrably a state school, not a city school? Hell, you have good chances!

Any other Land? Something on a lower tier? Nah, easy going. There are schools in Germany which are famous for breeding 16-year-olds who can barely read.

Disclaimer: Writer is German, Württemberger, visited a state gymnasium


>German schools expect quite a lot from students that do actually want to go to better schools.

Not my experience.

>But yes, it is possible to slack through it all if you want to slack.

I was a good student though and did really well. I never learned for anything though and was bored in basically every subject.

There never were any expectations on me which I didn't trivially meet.


Hey, you are the genius who knew it all before learning and got highest possible grades with no effort. Congrats.

Overwhelming majority of people is not like that, they do not get highest grades, they do not get into gymnasium without effort, don't pass tests without effort.


Haha, are you serious?


I think so. And he is presumably right. You either

    - learned something -- aced the tests
    - had the opportunity to learn something -- didn't ace the tests but somewhy you still claim that you were bored
It is possible that neither happened, you just somehow knew everything. But that's highly improbable.


My point is that the actual content of school material was very low, especially compared to university.

Of course I did actually learn the material of the tests, but the actual learning outcome of my schooling is far worse then it could have been, given the 12 years invested.


What is this supposed to mean? "Most people need to work to get good grades in school" is a very self-evident statement, is it not?


>Most people need to work to get good grades in school" is a very self-evident statement, is it not?

No? I obviously had to put in a lot of work in university, but during school I never did, which was quite common, at least among my friends.

Even for the semi-standardized test at the end of school I tried learning, but I didn't know what to do, so I gave up.


He is. Today is the day you realise that thanks to your innate intelligence you had a time of privilege in school.


I felt much more privileged when I was at university and there were students far more intelligent than me, who helped me with the material.




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