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Generation Grit

Normal tech student who beat the odds to practise law

It took his mother losing her job for Jason Chua to turn his life around. This is his story in our series on inspiring millennials.

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Mr Jason Chua never expected to make it to university. In fact, he never gave much thought to what he would do past secondary school.
At Stamford Primary School, he scored a dismal 151 points in the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE), which landed him in the Normal (Technical) stream, for the least academically inclined pupils.
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