I cannot, for the life of me, remember who said this quote but it really stuck with me. I know that I read it in Nicholas Carr's book called The Shallows but I haven't been able to dig it up again.

I am the type of person who never did well on tests. It didn't matter if I studied or if I was familiar with the materials or not. I just have a hard time memorizing lots of specific data.

I worked much better in situations that required collaboration and on-the-spot thinking. It wasn't really valuable because test were always worth considerably more points than the in-class assignments. 

Such is the nature of higher education.