In almost all college courses if you have a poor vocabulary and do not really like to read, you are in serious trouble. If you can succeed with your weird teachers, then you can succeed with your even weirder bosses. Your study habits formed in high school may vector you toward failure because you have never experienced what it takes to perform at the college level. That is why the freshman year is the hardest year you will ever experience in college. It takes about one year to learn how to learn at a college level.
Most people never learn to learn at a college level.
They then encourage their children to get the education they never got. They rarely read and talk about intellectual ideas, thereby predisposing their children for low academic achievement. You can break the pattern for yourself and your children. There is no gain in life without some pain. 16 hours for a B or 4 hours per week per subject.