Well at least your not as bad as my Ex. He was practically a genius, didn't even need to study to ace a test. But he didn't go to class and was so damn lazy that he didn't hand in any work at all and therefore even though his tests were all in the A range he didn't go to labs or hand in assignments so he got D's and F's that resulted in him getting kicked out of our university his second year.
It drove me insane though. Absolutely insane, because for example we were in the same Gen Chem II class. I studied for our second exam for a week, intensely. He studied for ONE HOUR before the exam. I got a 64 he got a 97. yet we both ended up with a C+ as our final grade because he barely handed in any work, meanwhile i even did freaking extra credit!!! TELL ME HOW THAT IS FAIR!?
Then in the next year we were in a stupid class together about Hitchcock movies. First off I watched all the movies, he watched none. Second I kept up with my journal, he wrote half of one the night before we handed it in at the end of the semester. Third, I did all the papers for the class, he didnt even hand in a whole one. I got a B he got a C+ AGAIN HOW IS THAT FAIR!?!?!?!
What killed me most was if he only put in an ounce of effort he would have gotten straight A's
That is legit exactly what my mother constantly yells at me for... it's not that I don't want to work hard and do well, it's that I don't know how to, or have the discipline to. I was a straight mid-80's student through middle school basically without picking up a book- I have a perfect hearing memory (not sure what that's called) which means that anything I have ever heard (and been paying attention to) I will remember, and that got me through middle school.
Now I want to study and do homework and work hard and get A's, but I've never actually learned how to do it or develop that kind of discipline, so I try to but get sidetracked really easily.
ETA: I can also recall almost any thought I've ever had. I do... do you know the theory that if you 'store' information somewhere in your brain, you can always remember it? I came up with that for myself and a locker room when I was 3 or 4. I only remember to do it occasionally now, but I can still remember that I developed it when I first saw Harry Potter and was having too many nightmares about trolls.