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His world crashed when he got F9 in O-level Tamil but PropNex co-founder Ismail Gafoor beat the odds
The co-founder of PropNex, Singapore’s largest property agency, is celebrating its 25th anniversary with an autobiography titled I Am Not Good Enough. He tells Sumiko Tan why he chose that title.
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Mr Ismail Gafoor found out what it means to fail when he was a young student.
He was born in 1963, and by the time he was finishing secondary school, his cohort had been hit by a policy change: They had to pass the second-language O-level exams to qualify for junior college and pre-university.
