He was, in fact, an apt pupil and a pilot of very high class.

She's just an apt pupil of the family business techniques.

I do not suppose that there was ever a more apt pupil in the whole earth.

Now he would make him a very apt military pupil: in the dumb way that was the only one possible.

She was not a particularly apt pupil but did gradually pick it up.

Perhaps he wasn't such an apt pupil after all.

She was an apt pupil and would learn more.

Well, you'll be pleased to note that I am, after all, an apt pupil.

And the pleasure of teaching some fundamentals to an apt pupil.

She had been an apt pupil; and had gone further than her teachers.