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Ms Sharmila Khan, with her mother Govindasamy Sarathambal. She says what private school students lack in academic grades may be made up by other skills.
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Ms Sharmila Khan, 25, could have gone out to work after completing her accountancy diploma at the Singapore Polytechnic.
It could have been great help to her single-parent mother Madam G. Sarathambal, who for years has had to take on several jobs to support her and her three brothers.
