The word 'swot' is correct and usable in written English.
You would use it to refer to someone who studies hard in order to succeed. For example: "John is a dedicated swot - he spends hours studying for his exams."
It is important to take a subtle approach to improving your performance, as simply shoving up your hand and shouting "Pick me!" whenever your boss needs someone to do something could earn you a reputation as the office swot.
On the other foot Silver screens Limping back to power Bye-bye, B'Stard Forever blowing bubbles Of mice and MPs Michael Gove, school swot ReprintsWhat does Mr Clegg have left in the locker?
He left in 1971.A swot in the jazz ageNathan Pusey was the first non-New Englander to be made head of America's oldest college (founded 1636).
Could it be time, perhaps, to dust off the works of Keynes, and swot up on the "paradox of thrift"?
On the other foot Silver screens Limping back to power Bye-bye, B'Stard Forever blowing bubbles Of mice and MPs Michael Gove, school swot ReprintsWith this year's summer recess approaching, the latest round of works is gearing up.
On the other foot Silver screens Limping back to power Bye-bye, B'Stard Forever blowing bubbles Of mice and MPs Michael Gove, school swot ReprintsOfsted and the Education Funding Agency, which oversees quasi-independent state "academies" like Park View, found much that was objectionable.
Most people will still swot hard to get top marks.
And he is a brilliant salesman, the first cartoonist to make extensive use of newsletters, web pages and e-mail.This ability to be both insider and outsider to swot at his books in the evening but joke with the boys in the back row during lessons is the secret of his success.
It is the prose of the school swot responding to a bullying outside world by becoming more and more swotty.And the outside world certainly did bully Mr Gould.
With his big shiny forehead and podgy face, he looked like the class swot, rather than a revolutionary.
On the other foot Silver screens Limping back to power Bye-bye, B'Stard Forever blowing bubbles Of mice and MPs Michael Gove, school swot ReprintsThe digitisation of film distribution helped, says Andrew Myers of the Everyman, a large independent group.
