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.)
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.)