5A Students?

Yes lol. "If you don't care about grades, then why are you here?" "I'm here, well, .."

He has Aspergers syndrome, but that doesn't give him an excuse for being a pompous prick.

Yeah, but if you said that to anyone you'd come out the bad guy. I hate that! There's a guy in my year who's in a wheelchair and he gets away with being a total asshole.

Omg I know. Everyone actually can't stick him - we were okay with his outbursts, it's just the bullsh*t that he was saying that bugged us. He always has to question the higher psychology syllabus and have debates about it . I hate, HATE people like that.

And to point out, I have nothing against his disability; just the stuff he says.

Questioning the syllabus?
The guy I was talking about tried to sue the school because he was inside during a fire.
It was just a drill.
He now wears a luminous yellow jacket during fire drills

Questioning the syllabus?
The guy I was talking about tried to sue the school because he was inside during a fire.
It was just a drill.
He now wears a luminous yellow jacket during fire drills

In fairness, if he has Asperger's syndrome, there's a very strong chance that he doesn't know that it's offensive. Things like reading tone, facial expressions and all the relevant social cues are either very difficult or impossible for (some) people with Asperger's. This needn't necessarily be the case, but there's an enormous difference between someone with AS being antisocial and a generic 'someone in a wheelchair'!

Additionally, whilst it's true that it's possible for a student to apparently 'overperform' and get good grades purely by dint of hard work, it's more than a little misleading to come out with glib claims like '5As = regurgitation'. Yes, it is necessary - and this will allow certain students to either over- or underperform. However, I'm fairly happy you'll find grades achieved are strongly correlated with almost any good-faith measurement of intelligence that you choose to devise, and they're certainly very strongly correlated with mental and physical health, earnings and happiness in later life.

I'm not getting at anyone, it just particularly irks me when people see those with a disability and judge them as arrogant, annoying or whatever without bothering to attempt to see things from their side.

My mum says she's going to run me over with the lawn mower if I don't get 5As.

OP: I got five As but not in the one year (AAAAB in fifth year, AAA in sixth year, two being Adv. Highers.) My best friend, however, is sickening. She has NINE As at Higher, and two at Advanced Higher. Hers were in English, Maths, all three sciences, psychology, French, music and RMPS.

Bloody hell

That made me laugh

OP: I got five As but not in the one year (AAAAB in fifth year, AAA in sixth year, two being Adv. Highers.) My best friend, however, is sickening. She has NINE As at Higher, and two at Advanced Higher. Hers were in English, Maths, all three sciences, psychology, French, music and RMPS.

I know, it's insane. They were high As as well eg. dropping one mark in the entire Higher Maths paper. I literally gave up trying to beat her or even asking how she'd done: I got a higher mark than her in Higher French and that was good enough for me!

Omg, I can barely handle 5.

unless theyre going to havard they wouldnt need more than 2.

Actually, 3 is pretty much the standard for any English university at all, and isn't unusual for 2nd year entry in Scotland. Your basic point stands, though - I can think of only one situation that might need 4, and none that need 5.

3 for english? really? for first year entry?
my friends going to do an english degree and got an unconditional with AAA nd no advanced highers needed?

3 for english? really? for first year entry?
my friends going to do an english degree and got an unconditional with AAA nd no advanced highers needed?

4 probably needed for oxbridge yes,
3 for 2nd year entry in scotland (2 for a few)

but 5 is just too far, i mean the homework, the projects, when you go into university you only need to do 3 subjects (which are basclly advanced highers)
5 is unnecessary