Why is everyone on TSR so "intelligent"?

Yeah, for me (and for quite a lot of people, to be honest), in some subjects, a C is poor. If I'm being brutally honest, if I got a C in A-level Maths I would be thoroughly ashamed of myself. Not because I think everyone who gets a C is a worthless piece of crap, but because I know I can do better.

I'm not suggesting B should be the new average, it would be meaningless and pointless. But it's not ignorant of me to want to be good at things. People should stop propagating this loser mentality that it's somehow bad to be ambitious. I'm not satisfied with anything but my best, and if that makes people feel insecure then that's not my business or my problem.

Depends on what you mean by average I guess. For Maths Edexcel 2015, 79.9% got at least a C, 63.6%% got at least a B and 41.5%, an A. I don't have UMS data but I would guess that the average was a mid-high B.

Yeah, for me (and for quite a lot of people, to be honest), in some subjects, a C is poor. If I'm being brutally honest, if I got a C in A-level Maths I would be thoroughly ashamed of myself. Not because I think everyone who gets a C is a worthless piece of crap, but because I know I can do better.

I'm not suggesting B should be the new average, it would be meaningless and pointless. But it's not ignorant of me to want to be good at things. People should stop propagating this loser mentality that it's somehow bad to be ambitious. I'm not satisfied with anything but my best, and if that makes people feel insecure then that's not my business or my problem.

Perhaps he finds unit 5 hard or the CW so found the thought of not having extra UMS to make that 270 at A2 for the UMS difficult. And some of us are just perfectionists. Interesting related read: http://hotelconcierge.tumblr.com/post/113360634364/the-stanford-marshmallow-prison-experiment

It gets ridiculous at times. Last month i saw someone complaining because he got a "Very low A*" in his physics unit 4 A2 exam. And he wasn't even trolling.

Do you even read who I replied that to?

so what?

If you know you can do everything on the paper, and should be able to get 100%, and you get 91%, I don't see why you shouldn't be as annoyed as someone dropping 9 points lower down the scale.

There's no need to be bitter just because some people have higher standards than you. If you're secure in yourself it shouldn't bother you at all.

Perhaps he finds unit 5 hard or the CW so found the thought of not having extra UMS to make that 270 at A2 for the UMS difficult. And some of us are just perfectionists. Interesting related read: http://hotelconcierge.tumblr.com/post/113360634364/the-stanford-marshmallow-prison-experiment

I simply find complaining because your A* wasn't high enough stupid. Especially when he already got an A* overall. I'm confident that he only posted that to let people know he got an A*. Rather than being genuinely upset about getting a low A*.

I want to make it clear that its not sharing grades that I have a problem with. If he wants to share his grade then I'd be bitter to be outraged. There's always threads for that stuff anyway. But be upfront about it lol. Don't go onto a thread about people missing out on grades or w.e and cry about not getting the right kind of A*. I recall him calling it an embarassment in the post

I simply find complaining because your A* wasn't high enough stupid. Especially when he already got an A* overall. I'm confident that he only posted that to let people know he got an A*. Rather than being genuinely upset about getting a low A*.

I want to make it clear that its not sharing grades that I have a problem with. If he wants to share his grade then I'd be bitter to be outraged. There's always threads for that stuff anyway. But be upfront about it lol. Don't go onto a thread about people missing out on grades or w.e and cry about not getting the right kind of A*. I recall him calling it an embarassment in the post

I simply find complaining because your A* wasn't high enough stupid. Especially when he already got an A* overall. I'm confident that he only posted that to let people know he got an A*. Rather than being genuinely upset about getting a low A*.

I want to make it clear that its not sharing grades that I have a problem with. If he wants to share his grade then I'd be bitter to be outraged. There's always threads for that stuff anyway. But be upfront about it lol. Don't go onto a thread about people missing out on grades or w.e and cry about not getting the right kind of A*. I recall him calling it an embarassment in the post

Yes, you replied it to me.

What's your point?

Lmao, so everyone on TSR seems to get straight A*s at GCSE, and anything below this is just "lazy".

You're supposed to be educated and open minded, yet you are somewhat narrow minded about the grades that people less academic than yourself get at GCSE. Saying that someone is "lazy" if they don't get straight A*s is so pathetic.

It makes me question the authenticity of the grades that people seem to achieve on this site, seeing as the "average" are straight Cs, but the average on TSR is somewhere around 8 A*s and As lmao.

It's the same with A Level. Everyone one seems to get AAA or AAB and anything below that is literally shunned upon, even though in reality these are absolutely amazing grades!

Has anyone noticed this when reading some threads on TSR?

Grades are no indication of intelligence.

Have you seen some of the garbage that people post?

You can't tell much about one's intelligence from the way they post

No it wasn't direct to you. Read the person I replied it too in order to see why I responded the way I did.