That surprises me a bit. Where I’m from in Europe, you basically get to (the equivalent of) 10⁄10 without effort if you’re smart and don’t make the teacher hate you completely. Now I wonder which is better.
you basically get to (the equivalent of) 10⁄10 without effort if you’re smart and don’t make the teacher hate you completely
Same here. It probably depends on country. Yeah, it’s kinda disappointing when winning a math olympiad gives you the same score as merely repeating the teacher’s password. (But it’s probably even more demotivating if your skills are somewhere in between: if you can do much better than the school requires from you to give you the best rating, but not enough to have your skill recognized somewhere else.)
For me it depended somewhat on the subject, for some I’d get the equivalent of 10⁄10 with very little effort, for others it would have required somewhat more work.
Even if I’d literally gotten perfect grades in every subject, though, it still wouldn’t have told me that I was the smartest kid in the school. Since I never bothered asking others for their grades for the sake of comparing them, for all I knew there could’ve been twenty other kids with equally good grades.
Also, getting good grades only told me that I was good at school / playing the system, and I had serious doubts of how well that translated into “real-world” intelligence.
That surprises me a bit. Where I’m from in Europe, you basically get to (the equivalent of) 10⁄10 without effort if you’re smart and don’t make the teacher hate you completely. Now I wonder which is better.
Same here. It probably depends on country. Yeah, it’s kinda disappointing when winning a math olympiad gives you the same score as merely repeating the teacher’s password. (But it’s probably even more demotivating if your skills are somewhere in between: if you can do much better than the school requires from you to give you the best rating, but not enough to have your skill recognized somewhere else.)
For me it depended somewhat on the subject, for some I’d get the equivalent of 10⁄10 with very little effort, for others it would have required somewhat more work.
Even if I’d literally gotten perfect grades in every subject, though, it still wouldn’t have told me that I was the smartest kid in the school. Since I never bothered asking others for their grades for the sake of comparing them, for all I knew there could’ve been twenty other kids with equally good grades.
Also, getting good grades only told me that I was good at school / playing the system, and I had serious doubts of how well that translated into “real-world” intelligence.