In universities, you are assessed throughout the semesters which means you don't slack off unless u want to phail the tests, quizzes, and even the assignments. The ugly part is that 90% of the community earn their carry marks which comprise more than 50% of the total marks,
BY CHEATING.
It sux to be me, who doesn't cheat, and yet sucks during the written exams. My only quite strong points are I can do the practicals (programming, drawing, blacksmithing, gimme anything as long as I don't have to sit in a hall and find x, y , z for like 3 hours, and don't know what to do with the x's,y's and z's that I'd found.) perfectly. I don't study textbooks, so I won't figure easily, what is the integral of lnx^e and such. Yet I know how to write programs, even one that can figure your mom's age, I can draw more than 5 multiview drawings in one day, generate perfect 3d models.
I get high marks for the practical exams, you get high marks for nerds' exams, isn't that fair? But no, the nerds would copy the practical assignments/tests from me, the dumbfuck, saying:
"Ni praktikal oh, rugi la tak dapat markah."
In the end:
Nerds-Dean's list, excel at both theory and practical assessments.
Me-Dean: "No need graduate leh, waste money only, go find a job."
Life is fair, the system is, it's just the people living in the system.
And they say universities generate professionals.
Hell yeah, they do.