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You could just be a good tester. I suppose that IQ tests do test your intelligence. But what if i guess for some answers and get it right? Then that would be a misrepresentation
I know plenty of people had great grades and do really stupid things and make questionable decisions in a clinical sense, not like a silly party type situation
You're right there's that straight A student who gets honor rolls and then there's that one kid who sits in the back wearing a minecraft jacket, a major loudmouth and jerk t o everyone but his "friends" and get horrible grades because he's a "different" kind of learner
A student can have straight Fs just because they don't feel like doing the work because it's too boring but they have no problem actually solving it. The student can be exceptionally smart just really lazy. Then you could have a straight A student in all AP classes and not know how to change a tire or even put gas in a car
Exactly. I had all Fs and one C when I transferred to online school. The thing I heard all through school from the counsellors was "you're so smart! Just apply yourself!!" I tested in the 96th percentile, but didn't feel like doing the work.
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That's how I was also. I liked school because of friends and some teachers but other teachers just seemed lost.
I had a science teacher that would never let us ask questions till after the lesson and then when we would ask her she would just say find out yourself. It's not like we were asking her for an answer we needed something explained
Enough of this shit. Good grades and maturity are easy to achieve. Those who say this type of shit are just trying to find excuses for being a failure at life
1k likes? I guess there are a lot of teens failing school here and that are just coming here to pat one another on the back.
...okay, that was a joke. I definitely agree with this, and started trying to explain this to other people at the age of 12.
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I get that there are obvious exceptions to what I'm about to say (people being bored in class because the material is far below them, smart people who don't feel like trying, people who are street-smart but not book-smart, etc) but in all honesty, as someone who is in the top 2% of their class, the only people who have ever told me that grades don't measure intelligence are the people with not-so-great grades who are salty that they're not as good at school as they wish they were. Almost everyone who keeps their grades up, with or without trouble, knows that their grades come from either a natural grasp for school work or a good work ethic/good study habits.
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Good work ethic and good study habits don't measure intelligence though and that could be the only reason they're failing. A lot of brilliant people in the world dropped out of school and still became very successful
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That falls into my aforementioned "exceptions to what I'm about to say" :) (<-not a condescending smiley face)
You could just be a good tester. I suppose that IQ tests do test your intelligence. But what if i guess for some answers and get it right? Then that would be a misrepresentation
...okay, that was a joke. I definitely agree with this, and started trying to explain this to other people at the age of 12.