emotican, what is %1000000 good on a secular studies test if their is no Yiddishkeit c”v? Nachas IS tied up with being a being frum and through our serving the Aibishter we can enjoy and work on different aspects in life that make up the whole person and their life.
Having nachas from an entire person based on a test or based on one part that is doing fine when the entire person is not is not nachas.
If you have a horn that still works in a car that is so broken it cannot move, will you still have nachas from that car?
If one feels that the MAIN thing in life is for a Jew to ACT, to BE, and to LIVE Jewish otherwise he is a shell of a Jew, then how can one have nachas if one minor part of him is doing good?