I'm the nerd, and (not to brag... actually, yeah, why not brag?) I'm the one that everybody else in my year wants to be beat in class. At my school, at the final assembly of each term they say who came first, second, and third in class, up until Form 3 (13-14 years old). Every single term, I came first, tying with a classmate one time. I got the eleventh highest mark in the island when I sat my eleven plus (97 in math, 97 in english, B in writing). I'm the person who waits until two days before the test to study while everybody else stresses about it for a week, and I still manage good marks. Even with exams, which began in the middle of June, although obviously the time frame is different for exams. While everybody else was studying from May or earlier, up until May 31st I said, "As long as I can say exams are next month, I'm not stressing."
Also, here we just say the percentages. You get a 94 on a test, not an A+. In the front of our report booklets, there's a little note on what percentages equal what letter grade, but nobody ever really looks at it I think.
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