Yeah, my very former classmates seem bewildered when I mention books we read for GCSE Literature. My grades weren't good at all compared to said former classmates.

Its kind of shocking, do they just memorize stuff like robots for a few months then flush that memory?

I could never do that, if i learned something, I likely still at least remember learning it, snd if i didn't then i still remember not understanding it.

I can't hunker down and just memorize or somehow learn something without actually processing it and learning it proper, doesn't matter how important, but then again I was later diagnosed with ADHD.