What Straight-A Students Get Wrong

[LevelUP]

What Straight-A students get wrong

https://archive.ph/vneN0

I must admit I disagree with some of the stuff the author talks about though it's a good article since it covers most of the counterarguments to getting straight-A''s. 

My reason for disagreeing is that the author doesn't account for some of the nuances in the way students are achieving Straight-A's.

Examples:
1. The school does grade inflation which it's easier to get straight A's.
2. The student uses hack methods to achieve straight-As instead of the brute force method which includes many additional hours of studying.

[Johann]

What Straight-A students get wrong

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/08/opini...ccess.html

Paywall.

[LevelUP]

What Straight-A students get wrong

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/08/opini...ccess.html

Paywall.

Try this:
https://archive.ph/vneN0

[ss20ts]

Well since I didn't have exams for most of my courses at UMPI I have to disagree with this author. I didn't study and cram anything. I had to do a lot of research and I still remember some of it. If I read through one of my papers I remember even more. Getting A's at UMPI meant I could do research, I could write, and I could follow instructions.

[Johann]

Try this:
https://archive.ph/vneN0

It worked! Thanks!

I don't think there's a universal truth here. University is not one-size-fits-all. Being your best depends on your ambitions. Want to excel in French poetry - at the expense of a bare pass in economics? You can do that... maybe you intend to go to grad school and write a thesis on Baudelaire or Rimbaud, instead of one on David Ricardo or John Maynard Keynes. Or something other than grad school ... like opening a French-language bookstore or importing French furniture... C'est votre vie. (It's your life.)