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by bonoboTP 2234 days ago
Admitted that I wasn't an outlier-level smart kid (so often top of class but not top of school), when I was done understanding the requirements, I could always find a way to study things from different angles, think about the why's, how to derive the formula we had to memorize, why the on-paper division method works where we just had to memorize the steps, etc.

Now if someone is a real outlier in IQ, then maybe these things are still too easy, but you can't design the system for the 1% smartest. They have to go to special schools really.

But anyways, schools are already tiered somewhat at least in Hungary. You get admitted based on centralized test scores, so your peers are roughly similar.