The phrase "a clever student" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a student who demonstrates intelligence or quick thinking in their studies or activities.
Example: "The teacher praised Sarah for being a clever student who always finds innovative solutions to problems."
Alternatives: "an intelligent student" or "a bright student."
Mr Miliband can sound like a clever student lisping a recital from an academic textbook; this speech was effective because it successfully combined head with heart.
Peter was Ian's older brother, a fine sportsman, a clever student, and a very good travel writer, celebrated in his day but now, sadly, out of print.
A clever student might even pick up some extra credit by pointing out that while Orwell meant his book as a kind of predictive warning, it is Huxley's world, much more far-fetched at the time of writing, that now more nearly resembles our own.
As a tale of marital jealousy and revenge, it carries the reader along, but it's a clever student's idea of a short story, not the powerful, messy work of a writer whom the page can barely contain.
Once he arrived to hear an Afrikaner policeman scoffing at a young black woman who was close to qualification as a doctor: "You think you're some clever student, but really you're just a Kaffir".
He is Danny Balint, presented as a clever Yeshiva student who has grown up to be a neo-Nazi.
Its simplicity, little more than a gesture in clay, and utterly indeterminate authorship -- was it made by a factory? a clever art student? a bored housewife?
Val had a good instinct for the people worth getting to know: a man with freckled hands and a mane of red hair who sold him speed and other things; a clever art student, half Greek, who played in a band (they sounded like art-punk before punk had really happened).
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No doubt some clever student of realpolitik advised Mr Obama and Mr Cameron to keep in with the generals because they are in charge.
There they are, drinking again.'" That scorn appears to have interrupted the clever student's journey to the top of the class.
