SourApplezz

Everyone has rivals that you compete with, right? Is your relation with that person more friendly competition, or is it more like:

"Hey what you get on that test?"
"97."
"I got a 98...you moron."


The only said thing about the rivals at my HS is they never let you forget that they're there.

Knavish

the rivalry doesn't exist overtly, but it's definitely there.

student91

nah..in most cases its more like,

"hey what did you get?"
"oh...uhh....78"
"hey, its okay, you have other chances..." (grinning happily) (in their minds prob. saying, 'haha, i beat you')

blah06

knavish, that goes with my school too.

NoFX

People didn't really know that I was quite a smarty in the start of the year because in 9th, I was practically failing everything, in 10th I had firsts in 2 subjects plus a second agrogate and they didn't really care much I guess.. I was still on the 'rise' lol

And then they saw a little trend in my tests.. And then all these 'known' smart people started to get a bit suspicious of me, asking me everything - what are you going to be when you grow up, what university are you hoping to get into, what course do you want to do at uni, what final grades did you get last year, what ECs are you doing, etc..

And then the word spread around.. and the known smart people bog me down with questions - "WHAT DID YOU GET??" - they say that with a little smile, you know, trying to be nice, but I know that they just want to be beat the sht out of me.

And when they get a bit more than me, they ALWAYS say, "don't worry you'll do better next time" and I'm like, "i never said I was worried" with a ****ed off smirk.

NoFX

Oh and when I find out that I got a better score than the other, I give a wide smile (to **** them off) and then I say, oh ok congrats on your score. And I walk off, feeling the heat from the guy.

theoneo

People generally stay away from asking each other what their grades are. Most people don't care as long as it's an A. And everyone hates when someone's like OMG I GOT A 92 *** I HATE MY LIFE.

And asking people what they got is kinda obnoxious cause it usually means you got a really high score. And if you got a really low score, then you're showing off that you can still pull off an A for the year despite a huge setback.

Anyway, almost all the smart people are best friends with each other, so people are really supportive of each other.

QuickLikeCat

At my school, no one shares test scores unless it's with your close friends. And even then it's only to commiserate about a hard test or celebrate over an easy one ("What an awful test, I got a 72. You?" "71. Way to go."), and in that sense it's not competitive.

However, competition in the long run exists. The unvocalized rivalry exists among a few hypercompetitve ones, in which it is them vs. everyone else, and then vs. each other, even though they are the ones who are usually top 10-15% rather than top 5% (I go to a really competitive school so top 30% is still good). It can get awful--they will dig or try to suck up to get people to reveal grades, and then not-so-silently revel in poor grades. One of them smiled when she heard some of my friends got a B for the year.

It's clearly for college purposes rather than I AM BETTER THAN YOU SO ACCEPT IT. Like NoFX's classmates, they will pepper everyone with questions about colleges they're thinking of, exactly how many AP tests you took or are planning to take, and what you've been doing to prep for the SAT.

celebrian25

There's not one "rival" we all rival against each other, but not like in 9-10th grade. It used to be hardcore, but now that we know each other so well, we're all pretty relaxed and aren't rivalish anymore.

terrybhs06

i really wouldnt consider it rivalry but me and a couple of friends (also track teammates) always compare grades just to be goofy. We all get decent grades so its just something dorky we do and none of us are really into school all that much so its just like a 10 second thing

GoldShadow

There's not too much rivalry here. Fortunately I'm usually on the upper end of test scores, and usually the top in my science classes.

Most of the people aren't braggarts fortunately. I for one, never ask others for their grades (though they usually tell me), and I only mention mine if they ask for it. They say "congratulations" and I say the same to them, or if they got a bad grade, something like "Don't worry, it's just one grade" (not in a condescending tone though). I can't stand the whole "Haha, I scored higher than you" thing.

shravas

For me it usually goes like this -

"Hey, what did you get?"
"A 92"
"OMG, I got a better grade than Shravas!"

It happens for almost every test.

sr6622

i guess there was a little, but then the courses changed so drastically, that it didn't matter any more (in terms of psecific classes).

whsox

So far there hasn't been so much competition at our school. My friends are interested in grades and we often ask each other, but it's not in a competitive/mean type of way (well, semi-competitive. It's mainly just to check how our score stands in the class ).

moldau

LOLLL

Our school has Edline..... so the teachers post your grades online, which are private. But get this - they post your rank in the class.