RULE TO BREAK
“You need the right qualifications”
Sweating over coursework? Under pressure to get the best grades you can? Teachers or parents or friends or tutors telling you how your whole future depends on it? Let me tell you a secret – exam results really aren’t as important as everyone tells you.
They’re a shortcut. That’s all. A good exam grade tells a university or an employer what they need to know in the simplest way. But plenty of people have happy and successful lives on the back of some pretty rubbish exam results. Einstein famously failed his university entrance exam, proving that there’s also a lot exam results don’t say about you.
Look, I’m not saying don’t bother. For most people, life is a lot easier if they get the best grades ...
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