how does one define smartness?
i know a lot of purely 'smart' people (ie very fast at picking up concepts and very insightful) who are quite lazy and didn't do so well
well, I cannot define smartness but you know it though.
You know how smart they are even though you cannot define it. For me, those 3 touched me most in terms of academic potential/capacity and etc.
People like kamal and jetblack have already demonstrated through their accelerated marks that they are both very talented, hard working and also "lucky".
Kamal is basically ranked top in most of his subjects at a selective high school (girraween) and we are clearly aware how consistent most selectives are in terms of results. Besides, as in jetblack, I know him in real life. He is clearly top in his school and one of the top in cosmology (at least I would expect him to be). From that I made some guesses but very well educated guesses though.
lolokay...i don't really know much about him. I should neither guess nor vouch for what I have said earlier.But it is so clear in every way that he is the best in maths here as 09er. He has answered the most difficult questions that even the top 08er, 07er, even 06er and so on couldn't really get. His solutions are of the top quality. I have read many of his solutions and they are seriously top quality - very unique and straightforward in most cases.
Besides, he is a physics olympiad which suggests his superior scientific intelligence. Looking over some of his posts on chem simply reaffirm my belief. I am 100% sure that many Bosers here would vouch for his superior mathematical knowledge. If I got high band E4 in 3 unit last year, it wouldn't be an exaggeration if I say now that he can top the state for 3 unit (And may be 4 unit depending on his luck and bodily condition) ...because he is just way better than me in maths.
Of course, I am aware that level of smartness =/= UAI. But they have many connections...
I am not usually the person who goes about how smart others are and everything...but those 3 are true exceptions and what I am alll saying here is all coming from my heart.