If one student's goal is to just pass and other student's goal is to get a first division (and may be a rank). Who do you think will be able concentrate better in the class? Who will be more effective? Who will learn better? If their intelligence and other factors are the same, then the student with higher goal will learn more efficiently.
Remember whether a student passes or fails in an exam, he spends the same time in school.
So set a high goal. It does not have to be being first in the class or being first the country, because that may not be necessary or even useful. Make your goal like success in your competitive exam or getting a job, etc. which leads to some big gain for you.
Just because you set higher goal does not mean that you have to spend more hours studying. You can still study only as many hours as you want to. And while you study, put 100% effort.
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