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Ink Slinger
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 882 | August 5th, 2008 at 10:37am There's a ten year old in my A-band English class. She excels in subjects such as English, Japanese and Math. I'm 14 - she's four years ahead of herself!
I wonder what it's like to be a child genius, stuck years before yourself in a class full of teenagers who are completely different to you and in some cases not as intelligent.
Anyone here been put forth a few years or have any experiences?
I guess this is meant to be here...
Now talk. |
Fall Out Haley.
Ink Slinger
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 816 | August 5th, 2008 at 08:11pm Well, when I was younger I was always smarter/ahead of all of the other kids in my class. They'd be struggling with reading, and I could read perfectly. Even in middle school and now high school, I'm always ahead of my class and stuff and sometimes I really hate it.
People beg me to let them copy my tests and homework, and it's just really annoying. It's always been like that, since like the second grade. |
kafka.
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 3018 | August 5th, 2008 at 08:55pm I don't know about genius, but I'm the youngest in my class. Here you can't skip grades, though, otherwise I'd be out of high school by now. >_> Either way, I'm two years younger than most of my class mates. It's annoying. Especially when I was little they made all kinds of jokes about it. Now they're just allowed to drink and drive and stuff and I'm not.
-shrug-
Doesn't really matter.
As for being smart, dunno I'm the first in my class in almost all subjects with the exception of geography -because the teacher so hates me and I am so scared of him- and history because there's a big crowd of history-fans, kids who go to contests and stuff and I'm not really into history, I just get a 10 and my passion doesn't go any farther than that. Most times it feels nice to be smart, I suppose. I mean you get to be part of all kinds of extra-curricular activities and have fun. And meet other smart students. There are a few geniuses at our school, but the smart kids know each other because they're always together in projects, clubs and activities. My class mates think I'm smart which is also rather cool most times and I get along really well with most of the teachers -except for the Geography one  .
Okay, I've bragged about it enough.
The truth is that I'm not really smart, I just work a lot for it. I have no life what so ever and I like to study. And I like the good grades, the perfect grades. And I'm nice to the teachers.
I never let people copy my tests or homework. 
I'm too scared that the teacher might notice. And I've probably worked my ass off studying for that test at 4 a.m. or writing up that essay. And you can tell if an essay is my essay because I have weird ideas and I don't like people reading my essays, not to mention write them.
I'll leave now. |
chester.
-chester-
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 17630 | August 6th, 2008 at 01:34am I'm not one, but there is a girl who is in my grade for English and Extension English, though she is supposed to be in the one below.
She's an okay kid, but she told me if she wasn'tdoing this accelerated course she wouldn't have done Extension English and it kindof bothers me because I think sometimes the teachers just read the name and go okay full marks. I mean granted she is brilliant, like really clever. But the recent extension assessment we did she got full marks and hers really wasn't that great. She used lots of big words and stuff, buut it didn't really answer the question- which one would think is more important. There was another girl Claire (who I don't get along with so well) however hers was PERFECT she deserved it way more.
Do you guys think that happens, like sometimes 'the smart kids' just get the good marks anyway... |
ChemicallyImbalanced
Wordsmith
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 10251 | August 6th, 2008 at 10:00am I'm working on Year 11 maths, even though I'm in Year 9. And it sucks because all the girls are like 16/17 and like to make fun of me cause I'm the short 15 year old girl.  |
shotgun opera
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 1774 | August 6th, 2008 at 10:05am Toxic.:
Do you guys think that happens, like sometimes 'the smart kids' just get the good marks anyway...
I would say yes.
I've never been a smart kid per se, but last year I won awards that I really didn't deserve. I did nothing in English, but still an award for it. I asked the teacher later and she said it was because of my high AIM test results, even though that's not what the awards are meant to be based on.
I didn't bother accepting the award, btw. I was out the back climbing trees. 
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Iris
Amateur Author
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 100 | August 6th, 2008 at 08:46pm I bet it sucks, my friend was like that. when she moved grades she was stuck with us idiots for a while and had to make friends all over again in new schools. it was kinda funny. she hates me now and i was the one who stood up for her.
(she has now flunked two private schools and moved away.) |
TavarElda
Amateur Author
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Posts: 110 | August 14th, 2008 at 12:18pm Ugh, there's a guy in my group of friends who got 12 A* at GCSE's and at A level so far he has got (I'm pretty sure) 100%...yes that is 100/100 in his physics exams...needless to say he is going to Oxford. He's really funny too, ha, you can hardly get a word in edgeways but hes not really big headed so its all good. |
pulmonary archery.
Ink Slinger
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 985 | August 14th, 2008 at 05:33pm I've always been kinda... Naturally smart. I just kind of get told things once and they stick in my head, at least, that's how I think it works. I never revise and got As at GCSE anyway. We don't get moved grades/years though. I think I probably could of skipped a few when I was younger, but I'm getting stupider as the years go by, haha.
In my last year of primary school, there was this girl who was amazing at Math. We were all doing our SATS and she was doing this extra exam... I'm not sure what it was now. It was amazing though. She was like, three years ahead of herself in that class... |
Maxwell Green.
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 69
Gender: Female
Posts: 551 | August 14th, 2008 at 07:27pm It must be weird being a genius. I have a friend who skipped a year, and she still does amazing in everything. She's by far the top of every class. She doesn't study, and half the time she doesn't listen in class. I asked her about it, since she's my friend, and she says it just comes naturaly to her. She didn't even study for exams, and still got amazing on all of them. Her brain just sucks everything in; she hears it, and it stays in her mind. She could skip another grade if she wanted to.
Apparently, children who skip grades are back in the top of their class within two years. Meaning these smart kids can keep skipping grades every two years and still be the genius.
For me, I have to write things down, listen complete, study for hours... and I still don't get amazing. =/ |
ScreamingSympathy
Amateur Author
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 202 | August 14th, 2008 at 09:22pm I suck at school.
I make average grades and what not,
But here you can skip grades, and there is one girl, who is really smart,
And in 8th grade she got letters and stuff to go tour colleges. |
The Lovecraft
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 476 | August 14th, 2008 at 09:24pm I'm not exactly ahead of my class, well at least not in all subjects. English is my thing, History and Romanian Litterature are a go too.
I, like dark., can't find a way to finish highschool earlier. If I could, I most definitely would, because I feel like I'm wasting my time. I'm going to be 19 and a half years old when I graduate. And it's not even my fault, I'm averagely old, as I was 7 years, 8 months when I entered 1st grade.
It's true that being really good at something can get you into extra-curricular activities, based on the stuff I love most I met some of the awesomest, smartest people. That's what I actually love about my highschool, it's like a bit elite, and we get into the best programs...  |
katerpiller
Amateur Author
Age: -
Gender: Female
Posts: 108 | August 15th, 2008 at 12:08am I'm ahead of my class in science and surprisingly math. I'm a sophomore and in Chemisty and Algebra 2. I would be ahead in English, but down here we have to stay in our grade level's english whether its too easy or not.
But in middle school and elementary, I was always one of the smarter kids that studied the harder things. In 3rd grade, my teacher didn't even teach me. She had the two other smarter kids in my class and me write a book on slavery. |
zero;
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 12
Gender: Female
Posts: 1384 | August 15th, 2008 at 01:05pm my friend's a total Math Freak. 
We call her the human calculator! 
She's amazingly smart, though.
Give her anything to solve and she'll do it in her head.
In a few seconds she'll have an answer.  |
Schweigsame Seele
Writer's Block
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 29 | August 18th, 2008 at 02:17am Well, I'm a freshman and taking Geometry and English 2. Those are the only classes we are allowed to skip grades in, for Science and Social Studies you just get put in Honors courses. |
Icy Blues
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 671 | August 18th, 2008 at 07:03am I'm in all honors and in the gifted program, although I'm not sure if that counts as genius.  When I was four I would go down to the five-year olds' class since I was at a fairly advanced reading level, though. The smart kids in my grade are really competitive and quite a few of them look down on me because I don't take extra college courses or ninth-grade math (I'm in eighth). My friends are all smarter than me, but it's helpful when I don't understand something.  I don't mind being a little more advanced than other people, though. I'd rather be bored than struggling in all the subjects. |
die sektor
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Posts: 600 | August 18th, 2008 at 03:07pm I can't remember any 'geniuses' that were in my year at high school. There were definitely quite intelligent students, but not super intelligent.
But in all honesty, I don't think it matters if you excel or not in high school. If you happen to be smart and excel, then that's great. But people who don't shouldn't feel bad about themselves. At the end of the day, once you graduate high school, none of that really matters any more. At least not in my case. |
Heart-Shaped Box.
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 429 | August 20th, 2008 at 06:50am I was obviously never a child prodigy, though I do think there are points where I might have been a little ahead. I have a memory of perhaps, second grade where the kids who did better in reading and writing were placed in this small place in the corner during reading and writing time, to read chaptered books that the other kids weren't able to do yet. I remember reading Charlotte's Web, and being irritated because I could read almost perfectly at the time (which I know sounds arrogant, but it is true), and the other kids read a bit slower, so it took them ages to finish a page or pronounce a certain larger word.
Later in fifth grade, similar things happened; I was given a test one day, and so were about three other kids. Nobody else in the class was given it, and we weren't told what it was about. We had to read a short story about a girl and her boyfriend's experience with the Holocaust (or at least I think it was about the Holocaust, it was definitely dealing with WWII), and take notes. Eventually, we figured out that it was a test to see if our note-taking and critical analysis skills were good enought to get into this advanced English program called P.S.T.L (Problem Solving Through Literature). The other kids and I got in, and I remember a lot of the kids eventually dropped out. I stayed from, fifth all the way up to eighth grade, with the same two teachers, in the same classroom. We read a lot of books that weren't necessarily for our age, such as To Kill a Mockingbird and Watership Down, in seventh grade, A Separate Peace and Macbeth in eighth. We analyzed everything, discussing metaphors, different types of narration, small, hidden messages through certain descriptions found in the books. When we weren't interpreting our books, we had to do projects such as vignettes, narratives, and big CSL projects. It was slightly boring, but I don't regret not dropping out at all. I would never have the literary-analysis and writing skills I have today, if I wasn't in that class.
This obviously doesn't make me a genius, though it is still technically considered advanced. And our class was very small, few kids made it into P.S.T.L and stayed. (Most dropped out when they thought the work was too complicated). Those few kids, including me, did get shit. We got called 'nerds', which is a pretty lame insult though typical of middle school kids. I've also been yelled at, when trying to explain something to somebody, then getting a response such as 'how do you think I'm gonna know that? We're not all smartasses like you'.
Well...I was in that same classroom, with those same teachers, and at least five kids who stayed the whole time with me, for four years straight; I never really got to experience any other type of English education in middle school. |
radiation.
Writer's Block
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 16 | August 20th, 2008 at 07:47am I'm not the smartest person. I get C's and B's in my classes and I feel proud of myself when I get an A.
But my sister is very good at history. She was in honors freshman year and was in a World History pre AP class sophomore year.
There was a kid in my english class who skipped a grade. He was a freshmen too. I don't think I've ever met any really really smart people |
Cristina Scabbia
Grammar Guru
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 6625 | August 21st, 2008 at 10:16am I did my ICT A level 2 years early.
It was quite daunting having to sit in a class with these students 2 years older than me, especially in the second year of the course because I got an A after the first year of the course.
They weren't that nice to me, but I just learnt to ignore them.
That's the only class I've ever done early. I'm in the right year for my age class. |
