i got 98.05 as my eighth score then i failed not once but twice in my very first university exam
no one cares about your age goal except for yourself and maybe your family but just for
several months no one has ever asked me about my ATAR score not in internship interviews
not in job interviews and definitely not in the dating games well actually no one even asked me
about my university gpa there were only three occasions in my life where my ATAR score matters
getting into the university course of my choice getting a scholarship and creating a topic in
my internship interview i'll explain later well here's a bit about myself i'm sally and i study
in hong kong before i joined the year 10 class in a private school in melbourne so yes i can be a
bit of a snob but as an international student who paid for fee there was not much of a difference of
paying a private school comparing to a public school 15 years ago so that's why i went to a
private school but i did not think he would have played a significant factor in my final
score to be honest this math and science that i was taught in hong kong was way more advanced
in comparison to the standard in melbourne at that time so i did not have to study very hard
for my vce subjects anyway i came from my asian family so i did the asian five esl math method
bachelor's math chemistry and physics i also did drama in year 11 but my family told me to drop it
when i got the ATAR score of 98.05 of course my family gonna ask me how come i didn't get
99 and to be fair it was a blessing that i got 98. if i forgot the 99 i might have applied to
study medicine and that would not have been a suitable path for my personality and life plan
for a number of reasons anyway with a school of 98.05 i was accepted into radiography in
the first round of office also i was offered a scholarship for international students at that
time the criteria to receive that scholarship over is to achieve an agent score above 95. so my ATAR
score brought me those two things which were nice and i thought i did so well in high school surely
university will be similar right oh boy i was so wrong university is a completely different race
to me i had to self-discipline myself there is no standard guideline of how to study for multiple
tests and exams at the same time i did not know how to structure a research project or even how
to look up research paper so i failed miserably in my very first university exam not only that even
though i was given a chance to sit a supplementary exam i felt that one as well so in total it took
me three chances to pass my very first exam i was gutted and In our course of 70 students no one
ever talked about their ATAR scores because your ATAR score is not an indicator of
how well you can do in university as long as you get into the course we all started from zero so at
the end of my third year it was time to apply for internship so i put my added score on my resume in
an attempt to impress i was offered an interview to a hospital not because they wanted to hire a
high achiever but because they wanted to find out if i was a real human being let me explain
in the world of radiography knowledge consists of 20 and communication consists of the other 80
is all about the interaction with the patients and working as a team if you can graduate from
a university you are expected to be competent in taking x-rays so the employers are not looking
for the person who got a higher score in the university gpa they are looking for someone
who is hard-working and is a team member after i nailed the internship interview i was offered
a position my boss revealed to me the reason why i was offered an interview in the first place my
boss told me that he had come across plenty of academically smart students with no social or
communication skills so my boss was very intrigued to find out that i a 98.05 at a high achiever
would be a book smart borrowing robot or i could be more than that so not only just that internship
interview all the other job interviews i had were the same i was not hired based on my age
score or university gpa i was chosen because of my personality my other contributions such
as presenting in seminars and conferences and my connection in the industry i hate to say it
because it's a cliche but my networking actually got me this dream job i'm in now not because of
my age school or my university gpa i have dated a doctor and an engineer people who achieved a
higher age score than i did and to be honest i was attracted to them because they were smarter
than me but at the end i married my husband because of his temperament and i have never
asked him about his aid school until the time of making this video and he couldn't remember exactly
what he got but he told me that it wasn't in the 90s but it doesn't matter to me anymore and he's
doing just fine with his life and he's earning as much as i am so if there's only one thing you can
take away from this video is congratulations if you got the ATAR score that you wanted but
if you did not get the result that you hoped for it is not over yet build up other equities in your
skill set meet with people that you want to become in the future practice public speaking and social
networking skills and everything will be just fine for you after high school your achievement
is not being ranked by school anymore life is more than that thank you for listening and stay safe