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Relax, getting good academic grades is not everything

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Many times, we unnecessarily read too much into academic grades and what they can do for the candidate's life. Yet, on their own, they are just grades.

At best, stellar performance in national examinations could be the spark that lights the fire of one's career and burns into the future. However, the embers will need to be fanned to burst into a proper flame that illuminates the course of the candidate's life, births innovations, and benefits the economy and the world.

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