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Chee Wei Rong, 17, returned to Outram Secondary School last July after being absent for more than a year.
'I failed my exam during Secondary One, was retained and could not get along with my new classmates.
'I found my work difficult, so I decided to stay at home and watch TV instead, or play soccer with my friends,' he said, recalling his days of truancy.
Now a model student who topped his Secondary 2 class last year, he said he realised that 'without qualifications, there's not much work I can do'.
Former Mayflower Secondary Normal (Technical) student Chua Mui Fan (right), 20, credits sailing for keeping her afloat in school.
She led her school team to clinch second place in the 2004 national inter-schools sailing championship. The top Normal (Technical) student in her school, she is now in Temasek Polytechnic, doing a course in Mechatronics.
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