Learning from Top Students

The video is about research findings across thousands of high school students in Australia, UK and the US.
Key observations

1. IQ does not matter for success in schools
2. Hard work is necessary but not sufficient.
3. Behavioural traits of top students include - self motivation, self discipline and resiliency (i.e. keeping at it even when marks go down in a test).
4. Memorizing doesn't help - Tests are about how you use what you remember, not what you remember.

What Top students do that you can do

1. Do more practice exams.
2. Create a study timetable with first putting all the times you will not study (where you do other things), and then fill in with the times you will study.