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I wouldn't be so arrogant as to assume that, no.

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I certainly felt like I was smarter than everyone in my high school, but I wasn't. I know that only stemmed from my own arrogance.

That especially goes for now where a lot of the information I learned has been forgotten by now. Some of the stuff they make you learn is really challenging, and there's no way I would be able to ace every test now.
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Not really to be honest. I went to a private school in which everyone was really smart and I just felt like the bottom of the crop despite being average.

Compared to college kids now that I'm in university, I still think that 80% of kids are smarter than me. I took it to study mostly Design Innovation and Information Systems. Design isn't about being smart or intelligent, but creative. InfoSys, don't really care tbh.

Truthfully a lot the stuff you do at college you forget once Uni hits in, so they're all smarter than me at this point haha.


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Well, I would hope so, but...I dunno. The curriculum has changed a great deal since I was in school, and I expect that a lot of what they do in school now I don't know, or would perhaps struggle to do. Different skill sets, and all that.

When I was in school, I was in the top percentage of Rattata my year for most of my subjects, at least going by marks...which isn't the only indication of intelligence, granted, but it is one at the very least.

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I was when I was in high school. It sounds arrogant but they repeatedly told me I was in the top ten percent of students ever taught at that school, 'cause I could do any piece of work they assigned me almost effortlessly.

Nowadays though? haha psyduck that I've lost like all of that useless muke.

So I guess the short answer would be no, not anymore.

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I'm still in high school.

At my old school, I was merely above average and heavily skewed towards one 'discipline', performing dismally in subjects unrelated to the humanities but claiming top spot for all four language 'sneak peek' classes and History. However, since quietly arriving at my current school in 2012 I've swept every academic ceremony, topping almost half or half of the subjects I do every year. I have also managed to get Dux of my grade every year I've been at this school, barely clinching it in 2012 but taking it by convincing margins in 2013-4. Thus, I'd say that, while there obviously are people better than me out there, I'm smarter than a good proportion of other high school students (I am, however, merely average at Maths).

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Probably, if I'm honest. I've already experienced the education they're still doing. There'd be something wrong if I weren't smarter than most of them. Or more knowledgeable, at least
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Maybe back when I was in high school I felt this way. I graduated in the top 10 of my class so that really inflated my ego and I thought I was one of the smartest people ever. Once I got to college I quickly realized that wasn't true lol. Now I've forgotten a ton of the stuff I knew in high school so no I don't think I am smarter than 80% of high schoolers. Maybe common sense wise though...

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Hell no. Then again, I did pass High School with flying colors... so who knows. However, I was also in Resource classes (special ed classes). They were modified, and the work is lighter as well as the amount of students in each class. I can't really tell you if I'm smarter or not. I guess it depends on the subject or something? I know damn well I'm not smarter than the average math student. My math grade level is so psyducking low it's not even funny. >___> Like, okay... so I can barely do basic math and stuff but... that's it. Just basics. Nothing more. Sucks, huh? Math is obviously my worst enemy. =.=

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I just graduated from high school last year, with my national exams scores being the highest amongst my school that year. So... yeah, you can say that I'm smarter than 80% of high school kids. And if you give me high school materials, right now I'm more than likely to still remember them, albeit I'll need a bit of a jolt in my memory first.

But really, muk gets down after entering college, and then I realize that I'm not as smart as I seem haha.
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I can say yes too this question, mostly on how the Dutch school system works. We seperate students at age 12 based on their results in their previous school years. We have like seven different levels, but there are 3 main groups. Vmbo, which is anywhere from low to average has 60 percent of students. Then there is havo, which is above average, and houses 20 percent. The highest level is Vwo, which I do, and has the last 20 percent. So assuming this is true, than I am. I could probably be beaten badly by everyone math though.
Also, some of you guys do university and thibk you aren't? Over here that's the highest kind of education and you sure as hell are smarter than 80 percent of the high schoolers when you are on that level.

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I'm going to be really specific but nonetheless broad and say that if "smart" in this case is critical thinking, then I'm certainly smarter than 95% of those my age and income bracket, and smarter than the majority of public school faculty because none of them ever question anything, ever. They happily do what they're told and bow to the will of their corporate masters. Apparently money buys intelligence because as soon as I start seeing wealthier middle-class people the more I see likeminded folks who say "yeah, why should we do that? Let's think about this."

Or maybe those in public education out of a lack of choice are just brainwashed into doing the otherwise rational human act of questioning, I dunno. I know this is a bit harsh but it's nevertheless the truth - I've personally seen faculty get shocked when I ask them "why" over something, and have students ignorantly laugh at me and make a joke out of my critical thinking. It's what I've seen here, and the only place I've not is on Fort Carson with active duty families who have a lot more financial freedom and bounds better education. >_>
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Come on guy. it is not that hard to be smarter than 80 % of high school kids.
If you can do Advance algebra well, you are smarter than 80% of high school kids.
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a lot of high school kids are plenty intelligent. using things like mathematics and ability to memorize things as some sort of quantification of intelligence is kinda silly. you could have a high school student who can recite 250 digits of pi, but that same student could be absolutely clueless in a social situation (which has some sort of correlation wrt intelligence, I think). but maybe I'm biased because I'm 16 myself.

however there are some things that you can only learn over time, of course, meaning the high school student may have a disadvantage when placed against a 40-something (is there even a disadvantage to be had? who cares).
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It'd be a logical fallacy to try and compare my intelligence to a high school student's intelligence. For starters, I can barely do pre-algebra and a lot of high school students can do algebra. Some have even taken classes for trigonometry and/or calculus. Does that make me stupider than them? Heck no, man. I have more life and street experience than a high schooler to be sure, but that also doesn't mean I'm smarter than they are.

If I wanted to logically find out if I'm smarter than 80% of high schoolers, I would have to literally test my knowledge against 80% of high schoolers. But even then I would have to question the actual test we're all taking. Intelligence can be measurable to an extent, but your ability to apply it is hardly so because it's circumstantial. It's literally impossible for us to just take some "intelligence" test and have it be 100% proven whether I'm smarter than high schoolers or not. Therefore, it's impossible for me to answer this question. :(

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I don't know. When I was in highschool I tended to score pretty highly on standardised testing, however having been out of highschool for nearly 5 years now, I've forgotten a lot of what I used to know, especially when it comes to Maths, Sciences and History as they haven't been relevant to my University studies. Obviously I've gained a lot of knowledge in more specialised areas and also just life experience in general would suggest I am a lot wiser than I was 5 years ago, but smart/intelligent is a hard thing to define. I feel like I would have to be considered smarter than most highschool students, but if we're judging smartness by a standardised test format, I might be lucky to make the top 20% these days.

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80%? Definitely not, if you're looking at my overall grades across every subject. Maybe 50% to 60%; just average. But if you're looking at my English and English Literature subjects, I was told that I was in the top 10% of the national cohort (I'm not sure if it's true but I doubt the government would lie to me about that).

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I'm a part of the 80%
Back in high school, I study in this church-school which uses the curriculum of A.C.E. You know that? If not, well, its very hard to explain and my head aches.
So, yeah, um, because we use that curriculum, we try hard to be smart, in order to pass the exam. If not, we'll repeat the PACE (a sort of textbook that A.C.E. uses).
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I wouldn't say I am. They probably put in more time into their studying and papers than I have been recently :P
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Well I would like to hope so at least.

I was in the top set for all subjects at school (but most of my close friends and my brother tended to get better marks than me).

To be fair an average high school kid or a least the higher achievers are better spelling than me and is probably better at maths than me, but I think I would be more intelligent than them at all the other things. xD

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I think "more specialized" fits it better. I'm well aware of the fact, that I've forgotten a lot of stuff I learnt at school, so from that perspective I clearly am not smarter than a high school kid. But I am also aware that I've accumulated a lot of knowledge which they don't have to bother with. I suppose it may or may not even itself out in the end, but let's just say in terms of quantity, I might as well be as smart as one of them...just in a different way.

Obviously, that assumes we are talking about kids who actually learn a little bit, because being smarter than a bully isn't that hard to achieve. :P
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