Obviously content-wise, university covers much more complex and difficult topics and the workload is much more intense. However I found it a lot easier to get top grades at university compared to during A-Levels.
I really struggled during A-Levels and it took pretty much constant studying and a round of resits to get decent grades. I remember during A-Levels I would start revising for summer exams in February. Whilst in my final year of my undergraduate I started revising two weeks before my exams.
At university (undergraduate and master's level) I found it a lot easier to get good grades. I didn't feel like examiners/markers were trying to catch me out. I felt the marking was consistent which enabled me to be able to judge my work, I could always roughly tell when my work had reached first class or distinction standard and was ready to be submitted. In comparison, I remember walking out of an A-Level exam feeling that it had gone really well only to get a D! At university, I felt that there was less of an emphasis on exam technique and memory recall and instead more emphasis on higher level thinking like critical analysis, synthesis of information, etc.
Does anyone else agree?