Why do so many grade C students find great success in later life n Not A Grades?

So why do so many C-grade students find great success in later life when we are all trained to believe that only high grades mean high success?

Feel embarrassed about your chemistry GCSE grade? Or your economics A-level? Here’s why you shouldn’t be – thanks to George W. Bush.

The former President is living proof that average grades at the age of 16 does not determine an average professional career.

As part of his commencement address to new graduates from Southern Methodist University in Dallas – President Bush said: ‘To those of you who are graduating this afternoon with high honours, awards and distinctions, I say, “Well done”.

‘And as I like to tell the C-students: You too, can be president.’

Some might say ‘Dubya’ was simply helped into the White House by his father (who incidentally was a C-grade student)…

But can the same be said about fellow academic underachiever and Virgin founder, Richard Branson who dropped out of education aged 15.

Respected astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson, made a similar point in a recent commencement address where he was reported by Elite Daily saying that grades ‘rapidly becomes irrelevant in your life’.

‘I cannot begin to impress upon you how irrelevant it becomes,’ he said. 

So why?

Well, based on the example; is the ability to learn from failure, perseverance and solid networking skills.