AnyOldName3 Wrote:He definitely isn't stupid. In exams, he seems to beat me (then again, he sees exams as an important part of becoming employable, whereas I seem to treat them as a competition), and he's planning on going to Cambridge next year. However in not-quite-exams, I win. By not-quite-exams, I mean things put on by leading organisations, such as the UK Maths Trust's UKMT Maths Challenge, or Cambridge's Cambridge Chemistry Challenge, that challenge logic and thinking skills more than remembering stuff, he has yet to beat me.
Doing well on exams is often not about being smart. It's about how much stuff you can brute force memorize and then forget in a week. In other words time management. I've met plenty of people who do fine on their exams here and are clearly batshit retarded. These students are completely incapable of answering any question that they haven't studied for an exam. Which drives me insane.
AnyOldName3 Wrote:Sometimes smart people think wrong things too.
This is true. However there is a certain point where you begin to wonder if they're really as smart as you thought they were.
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-Ron Swanson
"I shall be a good politician, even if it kills me. Or if it kills anyone else for that matter. "
-Mark Antony