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I've found that the people who study hard generally do better than their more cavalier counterparts, even when those people who aren't working so much are a lot quicker on the uptake.
On 10-20 minutes a night through high school, I got into the National Honor Society and kept in it through my senior year. The required percentage GPA for membership was 93.0 and I think my first semester senior percentage was 93.067. I didn't get any special recognition or rank near the top of my class at all, but I did what I thought was 'good enough'.
My brother, on the other hand, will go entire weeks and weekends without taking anything more than a brief computer break and scraping for 6 hours of sleep a night. He's a junior now, and last year I believe he was 3rd or 4th in his class of 130 and change. To him, the sacrifice of the other things he would rather be doing is acceptible for the happiness that being at the top of the academic heap gives him.
On the high school level, at least, it largely has to do with how bad you want it. It isn't incredibly difficult for most people to just get by, get the diploma, and go on to the university. The inner, raw desire to "win" the high school game is what makes people from all across the various levels of natural intellect work to come out on top.
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