Exam Results Do Not Determined Your Future

Exam Results do not Determine Your Future
A very good morning to the headmaster, teachers, parents and friends. First, I
would like to take this opportunity to thank the student committee members
for selecting me to speak on behalf of all my friends. Today, I would like to talk
about the question that has been troubling all of us students, parents and
teachers too. We often see parents and teachers pushing students to perform
well in their exams. We also often see students being compared with their
peers using the marks they have scored in the exams. The real question is, do
our exam results really determine our future?
I know that all parents and teachers might be thinking: Of course they
do! What is this boy thinking? Well, the reality is that grades just aren't that
important. Some of the most successful people in the world have gone on to
have amazing careers in their lives after having not the best results in their
academics. For example, our badminton star Dato Lee Chong Wei. At the age
of 11, he didn’t just not do so well in any of his exams, he failed all of them!
Still, he pursued his badminton dream and succeeded in becoming the world
number 1. With his passion and determination in doing what he loved, in the
end he really became the world number 1, being respected by everyone in the
world.
What I’m saying is that even though Dato Lee Chong Wei didn’t have
good grades, he was passionate in doing what he loved. That passion became
the power to keep him striving forward even when everyone was telling him
that he couldn’t have a future without good grades. Now, you might be
thinking: There’s only one Dato Lee Chong Wei in this world and you have to
be really good in sports in order to have promising futures. Okay, let me tell
you about my experience being a student.
Firstly, my grades aren’t that good. I didn’t score straight A’s in my

exams. I didn’t always get number 1 in my classes or the whole forms but I
exceled in other co-curricular activities. I learned a lot of things in the past few
years that I’m very proud of, like volleyball, badminton, taekwondo, piano,
speech and drama, and diabolo. I even got a 2nd dan black belt in my
taekwondo and I have just graduated from my grade 8 piano lesson. I also
represented my school in the dodgeball team with all my athletic friends. I
didn’t join these activities because I was forced to by my parents but because I
really liked doing all those things! I realized that I had hidden talents within me
that having good grades couldn’t help me to unleash them. It was also because
my parents supported me in everything I did from the very beginning. They
always reassured me that a single exam did not determine my worth and
future and that it was okay to make mistakes. As long as I could keep up with
my academics, they would let me explore anything that was beneficial.
I’m not saying that all students should just give up on their studies and
do whatever they want to. As the saying goes “never judge a book by its
cover.” I believe that parents and teachers, instead of bugging your kids or
students to memorize everything in the textbooks to get straight A’s, give them
the right guidance on what they are good and passionate about. Who knows,
we might end up with another Dato Lee Chong Wei!
Exam results do not define us as students and they certainly don’t define
the rest of our lives. Sometimes although we work hard but we still might not
get the results we want or hope for. However, that don’t mean they have been
wastes of time. Grades aren’t the only factor for happiness or success. They
become so important because we make them important. Success or happiness
has various definitions. But ultimately, they are what we define them to be. So,
if being successful means being number 1 in academics, then that is your
definition. Another person’s definition of success could be winning an award in
basketball MVP. As I have said, success is what you make it to be.
Over the past years, with an increased emphasis on getting good grades,
some have lost sight of the true purpose of education. The truth is that school
is about educating and nurturing students in holistic ways and not just getting
good exam results. It is about instilling students with positive attitudes and
behaviours that will prepare them for life. It is about allowing students to
believe in their own potential and enabling them to see that there is a world of
opportunities open to them. It is about nurturing students so that they leave
schools with strong senses of self-worth, hopes and a zest for lives.
The fact is though, an exam assessment is not the best measure for
everyone. Yet unfortunately, it’s the only benchmark used in today’s education
system to value one’s success and worth. Einstein hits the nail on the head
with this quote: “Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to
climb a tree it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
In conclusion, I would emphasize the fact that although exam results

might seem like life-changing events of their lives and without doing well in
them they won’t have bright futures, students can have different skills,
knowledge, and attributes that forbid us to only judge them from simple
grades on exam papers. Most importantly, we could be losing valuable future
talents for the workplaces?
I believe with passion and determination, there are chances that your
futures might be brighter than anyone else’s. Do have beliefs in your abilities,
confidence in yourselves, ambitions in what you can achieve and go for it. The
future is yours!

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Firstly, my grades aren’t that good. I didn’t score straight A’s in my

In conclusion, I would emphasize the fact that although exam results

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