Is IB for me?

I'm curious if IB leans towards my natural skillset, recently came across a comment that said you have to be a quick learner to succeed in IB which got me thinking. I would say I'm quite a slow learner e.g. I take quite a bit of time to fully understand things - in school I would not be the first few guys to understand a topic. But once I took the time to properly learn it I would be super accurate and would usually end up getting the highest test scores at school. 

Additionally, those university aptitude tests which banks also use, I score super highly on those (i.e. top 1%) but I think that was probably only because I practiced them so much. Generally in terms of simple mental maths I am super quick, but anything which is a bit more complex i.e. quant interviews, it'll take me a long time to properly pick it up.

Anyway so back to my original question, do you have to be a super quick learner to keep up the pace in IB? And which adjacent career would be more suited to my abilities?

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I'm not saying I'm super smart I'm saying I'm usually very accurate if I have enough time to learn things properly. Just wondering if that skillset is suited to IB or perhaps another adjacent career path - as read people saying you need to be a quick learner for IB

 

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