lilmax:
6. you will insult the op
7. bashing the school forever
8. you will start using dangote to console yourself
every body got consequences to bear.... most of them laughed at those reading at the beginning, in your next life don't make the same mistake

LastMumu:
Op is right. I had a CGPA of 1.61 in school five years ago and up till now I haven't been able to land a job. The cleaner job I was managing last year, the day my manager overheard me telling a colleague about my CGPA, he sacked me immediately.

Dottore:
Well the truth is that most first class, second class upper, Distinction, UpperCredit graduates end up being employed by illiterates, third class and pass holders.

I know many instances where the establishments of the so called illiterates engage the services of HR Consultancy firms to recruit for them. The HR firms even conduct aptitude test for the applicants. Chai

lilmax:
6. you will insult the op
7. bashing the school forever
8. you will start using dangote to console yourself
every body got consequences to bear.... most of them laughed at those reading at the beginning, in your next life don't make the same mistake

LastMumu:
Op is right. I had a CGPA of 1.61 in school five years ago and up till now I haven't been able to land a job. The cleaner job I was managing last year, the day my manager overheard me telling a colleague about my CGPA, he sacked me immediately.

brigadier747:
Rubbish post

Adegbenro7643:
God,,,,na ur hand I dey o,,,,neva drop mai calls wey u don pick already

Lemme testify to your goodness to the very end
Well, jxt as much as grade does nt determine one's success, it has spoken for volume out there. Being @ a safer side is good & advisable.

lilmax:
6. you will insult the op
7. bashing the school forever
8. you will start using dangote to console yourself
every body got consequences to bear.... most of them laughed at those reading at the beginning, in your next life don't make the same mistake

Miraxzeebility:
oga i know lots of people who graduated with low CGPA but are bosses to those that scored high

LastMumu:
Op is right. I had a CGPA of 1.61 in school five years ago and up till now I haven't been able to land a job. The cleaner job I was managing last year, the day my manager overheard me telling a colleague about my CGPA, he sacked me immediately.

pweetiedee:


This happened to you cos u want it to happen.

I didn't graduate with a good CGPA, I cried, yes I did cos I know I studied and I am a very intelligent girl. I'm not bragging. That was the only reason I cried, not because I thought doors were closed or whatever the op called it.

I got a job two months after NYSC, I had other jobs asides that and I was doing fine on my own in Lagos. I quit the job cos my former boss frustrates any member of his staff that is in school.

I still make money from my other jobs. Will start my masters this year- professional masters.

I refused to look down on myself or let what my parents said get to me. I held my head high because I know I'm going to be very successful


Don't you have talents? Learn a skill, just do something!

It's good to know you didn't throw in the towel, grades (good or bad) to a certain extent does not decide how our future will play out. Successful people don't give in to failure, they take their life by the scruff and look for alternative solutions to succeed.


BTW, I'm surprised you took my post serious. Can't you see my name?

mmmustapha:
rubbish write up, I'm a third class holder and I don't have any regret about that and I'm a fighter, I believe in myself. having poor grade doesn't mean that you are lazy. In just believe in yourself. I'm currently studying pg crime management after that I will do my masters on MCJS

fuckerstard:
OP don go find trouble, but person still need good grades. No let all these jambites loose hope in education o

craix:
Bros! it is not about CGPA that makes you successful. After all Mark zekeburg was a dropout.

mmmustapha:
rubbish write up, I'm a third class holder and I don't have any regret about that and I'm a fighter, I believe in myself. having poor grade doesn't mean that you are lazy. In just believe in yourself. I'm currently studying pg crime management after that I will do my masters on MCJS

fuckerstard:
OP don go find trouble, but person still need good grades. No let all these jambites loose hope in education o

Caramelemperor:
Lol...what a lie! It's only in Nigeria that I see people worship grades like they're gods. Good grades are good, but they don't guarantee you shiit in life. Nigeria is exactly as messed up as it is now cos we believe good grades are everything. It's this same reason that graduates idle around everywhere feeling too good to do certain jobs yet they scream unemployment. Lol.

On the other hand I see many Nigerians believing that because you graduated with good grades, then you are entitled to be automatically employed or entitled to become a leader....BVLLSHIT!

For me, I think the most important thing anyone who finished school with low grades or bad results should know is that contrary to what most Nigerians say or believe and even contrary to how the Nigerian work environment makes us all believe, what you know & what you can do is more important than what you graduated with.

This world is about getting results....even if you're a stark illiterate and you can produce the results that a company, corporation organization or even the world needs, you're better off than an entitled graduate who has a good result from school but can't produce real-time real life value.

Personally, the way I think, I never really bother much about people's results...I am usually more concerned with how much creativity and productivity they have to offer.

bounty007:
make it right when you still got time.. the op is right..tho it doesn't guarantee.

hard work / work smart.. focus. .. you can be anything.

Ajewealth123:
Oga did you actually write all these?
I finished in Unilorin with 2.2
Kwara poly with lower credit.
Both results,I don't even know where I kept them.
I ventured into business immediately I graduated and today,I thank God extremely.

No matter where you are,you have to work your way to the top irrespective of challenges or self esteem.
I wonder if the following people have low self esteem cos they no go grades.
Bill gates
Seun osewa
Dangote
Heliu slim
Baba Ijebu

And the rest.

Lejupiter:
he be like say n.a. pass you carry graduate...

fergusen:
I've seen many reasons adduced by several individuals why grades do not matter or are less important in determining future successes. I do think the influence of grades has been understated.

No doubt, grades can be a poor way to determine someone's success or better still, measure an individual's self-worth.

Your success in life or otherwise may not be determined by how excellent your grades are. It probably isn't going to make you successful or unsuccessful.

However, grades are an instant image of you at any point in time. Grades are the foremost tools schools use to measure it's students abilities. This means it will give a huge initial judgement about you, which transcends beyond the academic environment.
If you think grades don't matter, ask that friend who missed that fully paid scholarship by graduating with a third class.
Grades matter if you desire to get that competitive job where employers look at CGPA.
As a fresh graduate, grades will matter until you get something more compelling to sell yourself.
If you desire career progression in the academics, bad grades will ground you.

It is a fact that majority of people with low grades are usually defaulters when it comes to self-discipline, hard work, diligence, and planning skill, to mention but a few. All of these failings might act in limiting the success of these individuals (with poor grades) after graduation.

Good grades give you a head start, and an added advantage going forward. The world is moving at a fast pace, too busy in most cases to give you an opportunity to disprove your poor grades. Therefore they go by the numbers (grades) in assessing you. You probably won't get a chance to prove your competence.

And yes, Not everyone will be an entrepreneur or succeed as one. Not everyone will have giraffe legs (know somebody that knows somebody in that establishment). Not everyone will/can work in the Nigerian civil service (where anything goes).

Haven stated that, here are 5 things that happen when you graduate with a low grade:

1. You close important doors: some doors when closed can never be opened again. How sad! Whatever opportunities, big or small, there are outside that door eludes you forever.
If you settled for less and got low grades due to laziness and nonchalant attitude towards book work, you effectively closed all doors requiring higher grades!
A graduate with a pass or a third class automatically rules him/herself out of certain job opportunities! I need not mention these jobs, you know them.

2. Fewer choices: this is similar to the above. You end up with less choice if you graduate with a poor CGPA. why? Windows are smaller than doors!
Less career advancement options, less job option, and less pay. You'll have to settle for less.

3. Vices will appeal to you: I mean no disrespect to those with poor grades. However, social vices such as gambling, drunkenness, and others I choose not to mention will appeal to you. Anything just to dampen the disappointment of wasted years. However, it all ends in more disappointment for those not willing to get it right the right way.

4. Battered esteem: poor grades will batter your esteem. You will always avoid public discussions that will warrant a mention or display of your grade status either by you or others. Can you comfortably put your pass degree qualification on a CV? Never!
Deflated ego, inferiority, and other similar words will describe your situation.
Only a few (mentally strong) will refuse to be downcast and laid-back by letting grades get in their way to achieving success. The greater majority wallows in regret for years.

5. Delays in career progression: if you graduate with a third class, you'll need a PGD to move forward. If it's a pass, you're probably stuck/grounded. In the academics, grades are prioritised, and it'll remain so for a long time.

It is, therefore important that you begin to answer questions such as where you desire to be in the next five years, what steps to take to get there and what doors you need to go through. The earlier these questions are answered, the more doors you'll have access to, and go through.

To make it big, you either have to be the best at what you are doing (non academic activity) or follow the conventional easier path - good grades.

Choose the doors to open and don't let life choose for you because it might be a far cry from that which you desired.

Grades do matter a lot.

Copyright NAIJA CGPA

lawrykings:

you see these aforementioned people, if they go into school, with the right course that befeat their true self under right conditions, they will come out with excellent grades.

yes, grades shouldn't be a navigator to success but what I feel the OP is trying to say is... the manner, attitude and demeanor you use to handle your studies could as well determine your course in life.

the subject is way deep but I think making good grades in school and being successful in whatever you do to succeed in life way depends on DISCOVERING one's elf. once this feat is attained, this is where priorities are set right, laziness, procrastination, and any habit that could hamper success is done away with, thereby giving no room for failure in what ever one does.

my point is, a discovered self will thrive excellently under right conditions. An undiscovered self will fail in academics and still fail even as an artisan or anything engaged in under right conditions.