The phrase "a smart student" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a student who demonstrates intelligence or good academic performance.
Example: "She is a smart student who consistently achieves high grades in all her subjects."
Alternatives: "an intelligent student" or "a bright student".
"The study also challenges expectations and prejudices about what makes a smart student," Dr. Stickgold said.
A smart student, Meg has let her grades and her attention slip and started acting out violently in school.
"If you have a smart student who can get into some of these expensive schools, they'll do well in other places," she said.
Mae Whitman plays Bianca, a smart student who has some super-nice friends, and who is perfectly happy until someone explains to her that she is a "duff" – a designated ugly fat friend.
When the Guardian first book award was launched in 1999, Zadie Smith was a smart student still waiting to be published, and a shocking account of the Rwandan genocide caused a stand-off between judges and reading groups before narrowly beating David Mitchell's first novel to the inaugural prize.
He had a smart student's command of technical virtues and an eagerness to show them off.
But Mayer is quick to point out that all through high school, her achievements were never characterized as 'good for a girl.' In fact, she is quite sure that being treated as a student, even a very smart student, rather than as the unusual girl who's good at math and science, was critical in her success.
Are there any more houses for sale there?" "From an early age, were you a pretty smart student?" "Where did you get that laugh from?
Well, you're a good, smart student of history, and we saw what happened in the Depression.
That's what teachers are there for and a truly smart student will take advantage of that.
Dr. Goldenberg, a poor but smart student from the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn on scholarship at the university, worked various jobs for pocket money, including briefly as an assistant to a Ph.D. candidate irradiating cancer cells in mice in a university laboratory and studying the behavior of the cells after radiation.
