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Understanding emotions is nearly as important as IQ for students' academic success

  • Written by Carolyn MacCann, Associate Professor, University of Sydney
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The ability to understand emotions contributes almost as much to students’ grades as their IQ.

Past studies show two personal qualities are important for student academic success – intelligence and conscientiousness.

IQ scores explain about 15% of the differences between students’ grades. Conscientiousness, such as...

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