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I was interviewing a young lady this morning who graduated with a Second Class Lower degree. She insisted that she was smart. I then asked her, “If you are smart, why did you graduate with a Second Class Lower?” She suddenly broke down in tears. I asked her why she was crying, and she explained that she lost her mother in her first year at university and her father in her second year. The emotional trauma affected her concentration, and she struggled to complete her education while dealing with the pain of losing both parents. I will give her a chance to prove herself. But this experience has left me with a troubling question: Does our education system make adequate provisions for young people who go through such devastating experiences? How many brilliant young people have we written off because their grades failed to reflect their true abilities, without ever asking what they went through?