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Answer for the clue "A student who attains higher standards than the IQ indicated ", 12 letters:
overachiever

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Word definitions for overachiever in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
overachiever \overachiever\ n. a student who attains higher standards than expected based on the IQ score.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. One who overachieves; one who has too much success.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a student who attains higher standards than the IQ indicated

Usage examples of overachiever.

The daughter of a dentist, Williams, who was briefly married to a football star back home, had always been an overachiever until moving to New York in 1987 to pursue an acting career.

Maybe being an inspiration for you is enough for an overachiever like me.

He was an overachiever, in a Service where uniformity was prized above all.

To Alex, who was an overachiever by choice as well as by nature, sleep was a detestable form of slavery, insidious.

No, they were simply white-collar overachievers who worked hard and played harder.

He went several steps further - scratch a hacker, find an overachiever - by adding another dozen small cities to what he called 'the stat-pool' and presenting me with a computer-generated bar graph where Derry slicks out like a sore thumb.