How do Toppers Study? (Anatomy of 6 Types of Toppers)

Someone asked me this question recently on Quora.com. Here is what I came up with.

Just like one size doesn’t fit all, top students also have different styles of studying. I will share some of the styles that I have come across at IIT Delhi and XLRI Jamshedpur:

Phodu. Simply cracks everything. This is the Super-Genius variety. This person has photo-memory, crystal clear logic and hundred percent absorption of what he or she reads, sees and hears. This kind of student is normally not seen stu...