Good Progress Awards suck

Recently two of my classmates received a cool $150 bucks from MOE or something because they had improved in their academic work. $150 dollars! Thats no joke okay. I think its unfair because they only award those who have improved but not thos who have consistently done better. Throughout the year, I've always been in the top five and for the first term, my classmates who received the award were like 10+ in the class. Over the year, they improved and got into the top 5 as well. This kind of makes me think that i should do badly on purpose in the first term and THEN excel in the following ones just to get that award. Well, its just unfair man. They should award those consistent students as well.