I was there eager to learn more advanced concepts that I don't know but ended up being the unofficial class tutor instead lol.
Yeah. That's so annoying having to tutor a bunch of newbies and you feel bad if you don't teach them but there is basically no reward. Most of the times, not even a thank you. The best you will get is sometimes someone will ask you a hard question, forcing you to think of a problem in a new way. But most of the time, you don't progress in your understanding to more advanced concepts and even if some of the newbies get better than you, it's no good for you because they won't even talk to you afterwards once they don't need you anymore.
This is kind of the story behind the creation of the WordPerfect word processor. The professor was astounded that some of his students were making more than him after learning from him so he gave up teaching and just created a word processor with another guy to rake in the big bucks.
By the way, two of the girls who improved their concepts by discussing things with me, both of them got 66 in the final exam whereas I got only 60 (I'd had only 4 hours of sleep, got a hard problem that I hated and it took most of my time and then final 20 minutes, my entire section of computers lost power so I just sat there like a stupid duck!).