"superb student" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is an excellent student, or is performing exceptionally well in school. For example: "John is a superb student; he consistently gets perfect scores on his tests."
Rahman was a superb student in the first years of grade school, but he was being picked on.
MATTHEW PASSION' Juilliard415, the perennially superb student ensemble of the Juilliard School's historical performance program, gets a full immersion in Bach's surviving Passions this season.
"He must have been a superb student of the kind of American fascination with names and powerful families," Mr. Burling said.
Mr. Schuller, who founded this festival in 1964, is 86, and he looked thin and frail when he led the center's superb student ensemble in a program of Ives chamber music on Saturday evening.
CURTIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Alan Gilbert, an alumnus of the distinguished Philadelphia conservatory (and the next music director of the New York Philharmonic) leads the superb student ensemble in Mahler's arrangement of Beethoven's Quartet in F Minor ("Serioso"), Nielsen's "Sinfonia Espansiva," and the "School for Scandal" Overture, by another favorite son, Samuel Barber.
JUILLIARD ORCHESTRA James DePreist leads the superb student band in works by Enescu, Prokofiev (the Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, with Erno Kallai), and John Corigliano (the Symphony No. 1, a dramatic response to the AIDS crisis, from 1990).
"We are running out of the traditional tools with which superb students can sort of document how good they are," says Barmak Nassirian, spokesman for the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers.
He was a superb teacher whose students often became his lifelong friends.
That timidity by some of the brightest and most articulate men and women in the nation exemplifies my conclusion that American colleges have superb faculties, wonderful students, beautiful and well-wired campuses but weak-kneed, pussy-footing presidents.
I recommend Ernst Mayr's What Evolution Is (2001) as a superb resource for students and instructors alike.
Head teacher Emma Reynolds said the auditorium and "21st Century learning environment" represented "further superb opportunities" for students.
