Not my experience.

>But yes, it is possible to slack through it all if you want to slack.

I was a good student though and did really well. I never learned for anything though and was bored in basically every subject.

There never were any expectations on me which I didn't trivially meet.

Overwhelming majority of people is not like that, they do not get highest grades, they do not get into gymnasium without effort, don't pass tests without effort.

    - learned something -- aced the tests
    - had the opportunity to learn something -- didn't ace the tests but somewhy you still claim that you were bored

Of course I did actually learn the material of the tests, but the actual learning outcome of my schooling is far worse then it could have been, given the 12 years invested.

No? I obviously had to put in a lot of work in university, but during school I never did, which was quite common, at least among my friends.

Even for the semi-standardized test at the end of school I tried learning, but I didn't know what to do, so I gave up.

Bavaria, Saxony, Baden-Württemberg? Preferrably Gymnasium? Preferrably a state school, not a city school? Hell, you have good chances!

Any other Land? Something on a lower tier? Nah, easy going. There are schools in Germany which are famous for breeding 16-year-olds who can barely read.

Disclaimer: Writer is German, Württemberger, visited a state gymnasium