Do NOT be fooled by what some people say!

Have you been told by your classmates that they did not do well in their examination papers but turned out otherwise, or been told by some of your friends that they are so broke but turned out otherwise? They simply have a different benchmark or yardstick to measure the performance.

During my varsity days, when I was staying in the hostels, I had a roommate who was a brilliant scholar, there were several occasions when after taking his examinations, he came back to the room, dropped flat on his bed feeling so down and out, and would start lamenting about how badly he just did in his examination paper. I would usually try to give him words of comfort and encouragement. But, when the results were released, he still got As. I used to have some classmates who always tell me they have not finished their revision for the examinations or they have done badly in the examinations or they do not understand a certain topic, but their results always turned out otherwise.

Do not be fooled by this kind of classmates, sometimes, they are just telling lies. They just do not want others to study harder than they do, perhaps. They are simply competitive and secretive when it comes to studies and examinations. They just want to keep something to themselves the way businessmen keep their trade secrets to themselves, to maintain the competitive edge against their competitors.