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Alex Lawsen on his advice for students

80k After Hours

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Are Perfect Grades a Good Goal?

Getting perfect grades doesn't actually mean like a hundred % on every paper. Perfect grades means doing above some threshold in one set of exams at the end of year 13. And that's literally it, like nothing, nothing else to that point counts. But if you've had work where you made a mistake, and you are confident that you have learnt something from that mistake, then that's fine. If you make no mistakes that week, then, like, whatever thats. It's obviously like not failing to meet your goal. That seems like the kind of distinction i want to draw with this framework.

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