User blog comment:Mr. Pengy/A rant on my attention span/@comment-2240864-20120222204355

Hell, I can barely focus on tasks like writing the rules out or typing up 12 simple stories (let alone just one). I am easily distracted D:  Protip for tests that require you to vomit back information (Read: Science): Don't study. Literally. Wait until you are in the class the day of the test and in those probably 5 minutes before the test starts, read your notes. I shit thou not. I did this in AP Biology and I outscored the entire class by letter grades. Once, I accidentally the curve and the teacher laughed. The average grade on the test was 60s. I got a 90. She bumped me to a 100 and curved from the next lowest. Peoples was not happy. And I only looked at my notes right before class started (first period was AP Bio). As for Maths, just...seriously...just look ahead in the goddamn book. Seriously it teaches you more secret shit than the teachers do. My Senior Maths class I looked ahead and learned how to Expand Using the Binomial Theorem...with Pascal's Triangle. The teacher taught the rest of the class how to do that shit the looong way. I was seriously done with that test in less than 5 minutes. TL;DR: Reading a maths textbook can learn you some shortcuts. Also, nPr and nCr keys on a TI calc are win for combinations and permutations. Also, n! wins for factorials. The teacher didn't even know the nPr/nCr keys were on there o-o;;;