I know what you mean. My teachers have talked to me so many times about me failing their class because I simply don't do any of the assigned work and then maintain an A/B testing average. It's infuriating to me that they realize I can grasp the material and then fail me because I didn't need to do the 3 hours of tedious repetition they assigned me on a given night. There's a documentary that came out recently called "Race to Nowhere" that's about how kids are being pushed too hard to succeed, and I'm really hoping it'll make something change, even though it most likely won't.

Unfortunately this mindset is probably going to get me nowhere so I wouldn't recommend following it much further, but I know the feeling you're describing and I wish I could offer more advice but the best I can do is say hang in there and hope for the best.