This can be seen everywhere, including in the "get all A's" paradigm. I think it is a very bad paradigm. First, as you said either it is performance-based (if you believe you can do it) or it is presumptuous (if you believe Godhas to do it).
I remember one time in UBF, when I was still fairly new, when one UBF student was taking the exams, Chang was talking about that person having "Faith grade A"... I always thought that meant "by faith he got grade A"... no, no no... far from it!
"Faith grade A" means: nearly flunked the exam, because the preparation time was spent with UBF business like "sogam writing" or "message training".
Took me years to comprehend that in case a person was doing really bad on their exams, they didn't mention their grades, but their "faith grades" instead, only to keep the hypocrisy going that UBF'ers are exemplary students.
