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Originally posted by gdr2004
What makes a good student? Is it something that anyone can acquire with the right attitude and right mindset and the habits? Will I be able to make the leap from the 2.5 in highschool to the 3.7 that I want?
Or do you believe that there are just smart people who are inheriently able to remember things better and do well in school?
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There are both kinds. My roommate in law school studied every waking hour, made outlines for every day's class, and was Valedictorian.
I rarely went to class, never studied, and read the entire text and a friend's notes one week before exams. I had a 3.5 avg and was the youngest graduate in the history of Univ. of S. Carolina law at 22 years 2 months in age.
The moral is that some people are good students because they know the material through studying. Some people are good students because they intuitively know how to solve problems. A cursory understanding of the material will give these people the edge.