User blog comment:Varzan Deodinm Beldinm/Volume 2: Will the Fan Feedback Pay Off?/@comment-17099359-20140702091025/@comment-24994749-20140704054758

About Ruby, some people just don't blossom with the normal training others students do, some students need extra classes, a teacher that expends more time with them and all that  to grasp the way things go and success. Considering that, when she got that help, she managed to not solely succeed, but become even more advanced than everyone else, it doesn't sound like she was failing because she wasn't trying. She was lucky a teacher took her under their wing and gave her the boost she needed, you can't blame her for takign advantage of an oportunity when it appears in front of her.

As for Jaune, I have to agree. It still remains the mistery of why, if all the members of his family were fighters, they didn't send him to Combat School.