Back when he was a secondary school student, Mr Tan Chor Pang did not meet the school's criteria to be offered the Additional Mathematics subject but instead of giving up, he and a group of friends signed up for night classes meant for adults.
After attending classes for six months, they struck a deal with their own school to let them take the subject and, eventually, one of them took it as an O-level subject.
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