I aced everything in high school with minimal/no studying or homework, and the teachers let me get away with things because of that. I would intentionally push the boundaries of this by doing weird things without any warning or reason.

1. Turn my desk around to face the back of the class for the day.

2. Grab a chair and sit right next to the teacher’s desk facing the class.

3. Make whale sounds.

4. Play the end-of-class bell from a youtube audio clip on my phone at max volume 5 minutes before the end of class, for a week straight. In every class. (Worked 2/5 of the time.)

5. Mimick a foreign accent for the entirety of a class period (my favorite was Indian).

I never got in trouble for doing any of these things.