Schoolwork too easy for anyone else?

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I'm in my first year of sixth form and I'm finding the work far too easy. I don't go to a particularly good sixth form so no one else seems to be getting the same grades as me. I'm getting As in my essays while everyone else is getting Bs, Cs and Ds and it makes me feel excluded from the rest of the class.
My psychology/sociology teacher realised that I found the work too easy which was great at first because she let me just make notes from my textbook at my own pace, but now it's an issue because I'm so far ahead that when my teacher does say that I have to join in the lesson, I get annoyed because it means I have to go over something I've covered so long ago that my brain has to focus on a completely different topic, and as a result find it difficult to integrate into the lesson. I then get impatient at how slow the lessons go and my teacher gets angry because 'I'm being awkward and not taking the lesson seriously'.
As for my other lessons, my teachers don't care that I find the work too easy and give me the same work as everyone else which also annoys me because I feel like my life is being wasted doing work that isn't developing my learning at all.

Does anyone else have this issue? How do you cope with it?

Edited out, because my message is now unnecessary, since they took down the other messages!

Last edited by Nascaireacht on 05 May 2012, 5:01 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I was probably ready to go to college at age 16. It was not available in the states at that time.

First off, please consider becoming a doctor. Yeah, the real thing, going to medical school, getting an MD. Maybe read a couple of medical school biographies, some doctor biographies and see what you think. Don't be too quick to rule it out. There is a slew of different specialties and some of them may click with you.

And then, maybe get some non-school related activities going. Such as local politics, which I find more optimistic than national or international. Maybe community theater, or a local kayaking group?

You are seeing a downside of an institution where they are more concerned with smooth functioning than they are with getting positive things done. I still struggle with this, almost at age 50. I mean, so many institutions run this way. Some institutions like probably medicine I hope, more genuine interplay between theory and practice. Probably engineering, maybe architecture, even TV where they look at ratings (although I don't consider the healthiest kind of feedback).

And try to understand that your teacher does not want to be embarrassed by you non-participating in the lesson in a way visible to other students.

school work was always easy for me, so i had time for lots of extra-curricular activities like band, choir, and swim team. somtimes you have to try a little harder to make school interesting.

college was better and grad school was good.

Everything except math has always been extremely easy for me.. Which of course is probably the root of my troubles.. I just kept sliding by on the stuff that was easy and never spent any time on the stuff that was hard.

If you're taking the most challenging classes and still find schoolwork extremely easy, then good for you! Pursue your interests, extracurriculars, or something. For example, learn to program, learn to play an instrument, do art, spend more time socializing, learn to fly an airplane...whatever interests you.

I used to say this once, but my main problem the last few years has specifically been that of repetition. This typically happens with something that is matter-of-fact, like computer science... people generally think that if you already know something then that's good, as you won't struggle with understanding it, but I just feel really frustrated... almost dizzy (not sure if anyone can relate to this?)

This has happened to an extent that I now can't pursue something that I like and have had personal experience with for a long time... because I'd have to repeat everything again, and so end up having to do things I'm either not so good at or not totally interested in.

"I get annoyed because it means I have to go over something I've covered so long ago that my brain has to focus on a completely different topic, and as a result find it difficult to integrate into the lesson. I then get impatient at how slow the lessons go and my teacher gets angry because 'I'm being awkward and not taking the lesson seriously'. "

Also: Drugs and apply to a University. Mind boggeling (political)analysis of social behavior usually has me stumped enough to try harder. I find that if it's "easy", I stop caring.

Oh, the drugs might not be your thing (or illegal depending on your residency/whats effective) but it really helps me. I don't mean extreme stuff like crack btw, I mean anything from coffee onwards. I hear music can work aswell from a friend with pdd-nos.

i find school work extremely easy and am looking for a degree in science to suit what i am good at (maths,science, English[as said on other posts of mine despite my spelling]). It might help that i have never has to study to get a good grade (it gives me time to post on random topics on this website )

You're not the only one.

I was so bored throughout my entire schooling life that I set myself my own curriculum that was completely separate from the schooling systems'. I did that from when I was 7 until I graduated high school. I completed my first degree while still at high school and I finished my degree before I finished high school.

At least you are still using the schooling curriculum. You can't do half and half like that though. Either the teacher lets you study privately, and you ask her questions outside of class time if you need clarification on anything, or you do the work with the rest of the class.

One option is to tell that to the teacher and let her make the decision.

Another option, I would just ask her to allow you do study privately in class, and ask questions after class if and where necessary, just tell her you have no desire to be included in the class or interacting with them.

The other option is that you do what I used to do - complete the work they set easily and quickly, and for the rest of the lesson (in my case the majority of the lesson), just study whatever you are interested in. (e.g. I used to bring university level history books to class)