There is more to exams than just the end result

Let’s also recognise the important life skills students pick up in preparing and sitting the papers. 

Regardless of what your children’s examination results may be, it is important for parents and students to not just reduce the process to those grades. ST PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG
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Every time we usher in the new year with the hope of better things to come, a cloud of nervous anticipation looms for the many students awaiting the outcomes of their GCE O- and A-level results.

Those two academic milestones are usually marked in the first two months of the year.

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