O mais provável é que Tom tenha estudado muito.
É muito provável que Tom tenha estudado muito enquanto esteve em Hogwarts. Ele foi descrito como tendo sede de conhecimento, o que implica que não só ele era naturalmente talentoso, ele também trabalhou para ganhar mais conhecimento.
“As an unusually talented and very good-looking orphan, he naturally drew attention and sympathy from the staff almost from the moment of his arrival. He seemed polite, quiet and thirsty for knowledge. Nearly all were most favourably impressed by him.”
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 17 (A Sluggish Memory)
Ele obteve notas altas em todos os exames que fez, o que é mais uma prova de que ele era um aluno dedicado.
“He reached the seventh year of his schooling with, as you might have expected, top grades in every examination he had taken. All around him, his classmates were deciding which jobs they were to pursue once they had left Hogwarts. Nearly everybody expected spectacular things from Tom Riddle, prefect, Head Boy, winner of the Special Award for Services to the School.”
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 20 (Lord Voldemort’s Request)
Tom também disse que ele era confiável porque ele era um estudante modelo.
“It was my word against Hagrid’s, Harry. Well, you can imagine how it looked to old Armando Dippet. On the one hand, Tom Riddle, poor but brilliant, parentless but so brave, school Prefect, model student; on the other hand, big, blundering Hagrid, in trouble every other week, trying to raise werewolf cubs under his bed, sneaking off to the Forbidden Forest to wrestle trolls.”
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 17 (The Heir of Slytherin)
Pelo que sabemos das realizações de Tom e como seus professores e colegas o perceberam, ele quase certamente estudou bastante.