Why don't Asperger's people revise for tests?

I think it only depends on the people. On how that person can cope on the tests that he/she encounters. Here's a link that maybe can help you in some information about asperger syndrome.

Not everyone with Asperger's syndrome is the same, so even though this guy you know never revises for tests, that doesn't mean that nobody with Asperger's syndrome revises for tests. Every individual is different.

He may remember things well enough without revising, or he may not care that much about his grades and simply not feel like revising.

People with Asperger's syndrome are often good at things that they find interesting, so if he is interested in the subject then there's a good chance that he remembers really well most or all of what you've learned about it and doesn't need to revise. If he's not interested in the subject at all then he may not feel like revising for the test simply because he finds the subject uninteresting and doesn't care about succeeding at that subject.

I have Asperger's syndrome and when I was in school I usually revised for tests, but it varied a lot between subjects how much I'd revise. Sometimes I'd re-read everything and sometimes I'd just take a quick glimpse over my notes. If I was interested in or good at the subject I usually needed very little revising, and there were even times when due to unavoidable circumstances I couldn't revise at all before tests and I still scored between 95 to 100 out of 100 points. I generally learn and memorize facts, methods and such very fast and easily, like my mind just absorbs it all quickly like a sponge absorbs water. :) However, there were some subjects that I found really uninteresting and had some difficulty with learning and I usually had to spend more time revising and trying to see "the big picture" regarding those subjects, because I wanted to get a good score on all tests. I really dreaded having to revise for those, but I forced myself to do it anyway because I stubbornly wanted to get as good grades as I possibly could.

I didn't have Asperger's when I took my GCSE's, (though I'm being analyised for it now), and I never revised for a single test.

The average is you take around 8 GCSE's and pass 5 with an A*-C grade, (at the time of taking them), I got 15 fror 15, including a Distinction and Merit, with all but one of the rest of my grades being within the A*-C range, (I got one D, but in all fairness, it was an Anstronomy GCSE I entered in for late when it was introduced as an optional, and only had just over 4 months to do all the coursework).

Some people just don't revise to lower their stress levels, you can't really count a single person with Aspergers as a comprehensive analysis on the trend.

As mentioned, I had no diagnoses at the time, didn't revise, and got the highest single-tally of GCSE's in the county.

Perhaps not revising is just his way of preparing; it works for some people, doesn't work for others; like how many people saying "cramming" doesn't work; yet for a few people it actually will.

Without access to a larger stud in these cases; no-one can say for certain, (perhaps Asperger's charities or organisations in your area may be able to furnish you with more specific statistics).

I have Asperger's and I just took 4 tests, which I revised for as much as everyone else. It's that one person, you can't make a statement about every person with Asperger's based on one person with the condition.

I revised like mad.

We vary a lot.

When you've met one person with Asperger's you've met one person with Asperger's, not them all.

When you've got to know a fair number, you start to get a broad enough picture to understand the "envelope" of traits and personalities that can be found within that common diagnosis of Asperger's.

(Yes, the quiet withdrawn ones *and* the loud, assertive rude ones, and the ones you'd never know, casually, because they have worked out social skills the hard way.)