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How good you are at academics actually correlates with IQ only up to a certain extent. When your IQ is more than 3-4 standard deviations from the norm, academic high performance is less likely, most likely because thinking and learning patterns in that segment of the population are so dramatically different from how material is taught (and from how it is learned by everybody else). Source: I've worked with a lot of the nation's (and world's) leading specialists on profound giftedness and twice exceptionality, especially in kids. There is literature and research on this, but sample sizes are (obviously, for statistical reasons) small.