I read a post about pains of 2.2 graduates, the pains we are made to go through due to stigmatisation in the Labour market. Yes, it is true that some of the 2.1 students and graduates are not any better than some of the 2.2 students and graduates. Some students do all they can to graduate with 2.1, had once been there but due to several factors they dropped. Yet that does not make them average or less than average or below average students. After reading the earlier post it was as if the OP was saying my story as an undergraduate. The truth of the matter is that examination is not always the true test of what we really know because our teachers and lecturers always want us to give back to them what we were taught, some of us who try as much to give back but too stubborn to try something different end up with GPs close to 2.1. I do not blow my trumpet here but some 2.1 students and graduates respect and envy some of us who made 2.2 since they know the real stuff we are made of better than our lecturers.
Now back to the topic proper, many of those who have been outstsanding in our world are not always those with 1st class or 2.1 but those 2.2 students and 3rd class that had been written off by our institution. I am a practising lawyer who never failed any exam in my life, I had been an above average student yet still graded with 2.2 but the beauty of the story is that I am forced to show the world I have much more to offer. For long am not an advocate of go to school get good grade to get employed because I do see myself as an employer. I worked for three bosses who can attest that am sound because I was never turned down at any interview, when I served as a corper I was given opportunity to stay back at my PPA but I had my plans. Today I am just 27 years and I have been able to have my own law firm in one of the best areas in Lagos mainland. I look forward to giving jobs to my colleagues and juniors. The truth is that it does not come on a platter of gold but I put in so much than many of my colleagues with paid employment with their 2.1. As at today I have a much more beautiful office than my boss, I also look forward to reducing unemployment in Nigeria and my certificate has not been an impedement to my dream. Little wonder that I also turned down offer on the Island in the only office I eveer applied to right there just to be alone and I have no regret till date. Please note, I turn down briefs, I detest when lawyers come too cheap like those popularly called charge and bail since I know I have a lot to offer.
Conclusively the 2.2 we made in school make us think more of being employers hence we think outsided the box than some of our friends who made 2.1 only to end up CEO at most in companies set up by our 2.2 peers. Do not let your grade determine your life but your life determine your grade. We aint give a damn about school grade but how life itself grade us, we think nothing but our empire. #NextBillionairesinthemaking
#PursueYourDream

Dis is so encouraging because some"1st classers" nd "2'1ers" usually practice la cramp la pour so wen dey graduate they wld have lil or notin to offer.....

true taik,dere is life after death

nevi12:
Dis is so encouraging because some"1st classers" nd "2'1ers" usually practice la cramp la pour so wen dey graduate they wld have lil or notin to offer.....

dont hate on 2.1.
u need to have a high brain capacity to be able to le cram le pour.
u tink say na everybody sabi cram.

Food for the wise.
You just hit the nail

following

Please do not hate 2.1 students because I am also one of them. I only was let down by the flotsam and jetsam of life as an undergraduate. However I do not let my not having 2.1 deter my Zeal to succeed, hence if you are a student please do all you can to have it but do ensure you put in so much effort you are doing in school the moment you graduate since getting a job after school simply means getting the journey of the broke.

nevi12:
Dis is so encouraging because some"1st classers" nd "2'1ers" usually practice la cramp la pour so wen dey graduate they wld have lil or notin to offer.....

So what if some first class and 2.1 graduates have nothing to offer? Who cares? That's not anyone's concern. What does that even have to do with anything?

There are better forms of motivation than "some first class and 2.1 graduates aren't worth their degrees".

La cram, la pour.
la forget, la die.
Our popular slogan back in school and this earned 1st class for some of my mates. Nice write up.

Guys this is the 21st century, ur success is dependent on ur mindset not on ur certificate, like it or leave it, no employer can make u rich even if ur paid 500million, wake up youths. Kai

LastMumu:
I don't know if I should be saying this but having seen both the "Sorrow of 2:2 graduates" and "Joy of 2:2 graduates" write-ups, I have come to a reasonable conclusion that 2:2 graduates have personal beef with Mr Paragraph.

Lol I swear they have serious beef with paragraph. I couldn't even read all the op wrote

LastMumu:
I don't know if I should be saying this but having seen both the "Sorrow of 2:2 graduates" and "Joy of 2:2 graduates" write-ups, I have come to a reasonable conclusion that 2:2 graduates have personal beef with Mr Paragraph.

Guy you try. Telling me I cannot use paragraph where appropriate is laughable. I am concerned with passing my message which I believe you understand.

Hope for the Hopeless.. #WeShallAllSeeLightAtTheEndOfTheTunel

BrBakreez:

Guy you try. Telling me I cannot use paragraph where appropriate is laughable. I am concerned with passing my message which I believe you understand.

Honestly, i'd expected your write up to justify your topic (claim, point or whichever way you put it), but it didn't.

It's very wrong of you, a lawyer for that matter, to say, "i am concerned with passing my message..." and that should be a good excuse for you to ignore the rules of writing. You should know, if you do not..., that proper paragraphing helps your readers understand you better.

Kindly take dressing and be properly guided.

Your concerned reader

Please in the motivation and inspiration talk of the trials or successes of 2:2 graduates, let us not downgrade or mock 1st class or 2:1 graduates.....

Op just said 2:1 graduates will work for Companies set up by 2:2 graduates that's not a good statement....

I'm not doubting the possibility one bit, but that shouldn't be a good inspirational talk ...
Anybody can work for anybody in this life.....

Most billionaires in the world didn't finish University, but PhD holders/specialist/professionals work for them

Nothing matters anymore.

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OP Stop deceiving yourself. I can see envy in the write up unlike the former topic. May I remind you that it is not the intelligent one that comes first in class rather it's the person who comes first that is regarded as intelligent.

I believe I know why companies take 2.1 and first class graduates only. It's because it takes a book smart and street smart person to make either grades. School isn't only about reading and writing exams.

It's only a smart person that'll know he didn't write an exam well and try to meet lecturer to change things instead of staying idle and keep praying for luck

It's only a smart person that'll know he didn't read for an exam and bring a mercenary to the exam hall instead of coming with empty skull and hoping on luck

It's only a smart person that will know he doesn't know what to write and bring "microchips" into the exam hall to aid his brain

I can go on and on but the fact is that people who graduated with 2.1 and first class planned for it smartly. That is why companies prefer them because they don't need a book worm rather they need employees that can always improvise, think outside the box and equally have problem solving skills.
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Together we can build a Nigeria we truly deserve. Lend a hand to the new movement.
Check my sign.

BrBakreez:
I read a post about pains of 2.2 graduates, the pains we are made to go through due to stigmatisation in the Labour market. Yes, it is true that some of the 2.1 students and graduates are not any better than some of the 2.2 students and graduates. Some students do all they can to graduate with 2.1, had once been there but due to several factors they dropped. Yet that does not make them average or less than average or below average students. After reading the earlier post it was as if the OP was saying my story as an undergraduate. The truth of the matter is that examination is not always the true test of what we really know because our teachers and lecturers always want us to give back to them what we were taught, some of us who try as much to give back but too stubborn to try something different end up with GPs close to 2.1. I do not blow my trumpet here but some 2.1 students and graduates respect and envy some of us who made 2.2 since they know the real stuff we are made of better than our lecturers.
Now back to the topic proper, many of those who have been outstsanding in our world are not always those with 1st class or 2.1 but those 2.2 students and 3rd class that had been written off by our institution. I am a practising lawyer who never failed any exam in my life, I had been an above average student yet still graded with 2.2 but the beauty of the story is that I am forced to show the world I have much more to offer. For long am not an advocate of go to school get good grade to get employed because I do see myself as an employer. I worked for three bosses who can attest that am sound because I was never turned down at any interview, when I served as a corper I was given opportunity to stay back at my PPA but I had my plans. Today I am just 27 years and I have been able to have my own law firm in one of the best areas in Lagos mainland. I look forward to giving jobs to my colleagues and juniors. The truth is that it does not come on a platter of gold but I put in so much than many of my colleagues with paid employment with their 2.1. As at today I have a much more beautiful office than my boss, I also look forward to reducing unemployment in Nigeria and my certificate has not been an impedement to my dream. Little wonder that I also turned down offer on the Island in the only office I eveer applied to right there just to be alone and I have no regret till date. Please note, I turn down briefs, I detest when lawyers come too cheap like those popularly called charge and bail since I know I have a lot to offer.
Conclusively the 2.2 we made in school make us think more of being employers hence we think outsided the box than some of our friends who made 2.1 only to end up CEO at most in companies set up by our 2.2 peers. Do not let your grade determine your life but your life determine your grade. We aint give a damn about school grade but how life itself grade us, we think nothing but our empire. #NextBillionairesinthemaking
#PursueYourDream

u have a boss?? i thought ure an entrepreneur?
also edit ya outsided...was prolly a typo.

overall, getting good grades is good whether u wanna find a job or mk one

This 1st class, 2.1, 2.2 dichotomy should stop bikonu. Na unemployment cause all this yeye argument, after all in a saner society a university graduate is suitable for employment in any situation and position that best suits his performance. Whether 1st class or 3rd class just be good enough to compete with ur peers any-day, any-time and the sky will be ur nadir.

Some people are joy killers, no matter how you avoid them, they will make sure your inspiration and moral is demoralised.

Op's message is 100% well understood.

Do you know that communication is not about how fluent or your ability to use vocabulary BUT ''Your ability to pass or relay message to people and feedback is gotten from your audience.

So, Mr Lastmumu, your write ups on nairaland portrays arrogance and pride. I usually check your comments. It might also interest you to know that, in this thread, you have not communicated as far as I am concerned.

Op, don't be downcasted. keep your moral high.

God will be with you.

Regards,

Chyna.

Counter thread ti take over

chyna4luv:
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So, Mr Lastmumu, your write ups on nairaland portrays arrogance and pride. I usually check your comments. It might also interest you to know that, in this thread, you have not communicated as far as I am concerned.[/s]

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LastMumu:


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Amicable09, abimbawealth, Abimbex007, Lero15, come ye hither and drag Mr. LastMumu back to the chat room where he belong.

It's becoming a disturbing trend how people talk down on first class and 2:1 graduates just to justify their own lesser grades. What is even more disturbing is the OP's conclusion that 2:1 graduates will end up "at most" as CEOs in companies set up by 2:2 students. Nothing is farther from the truth if you ask me, and I seriously pity undergraduates who would read this and see it as an encouragement to become less aggressive with their studies. As a matter of fact, if this post encourages you at all then you really need to start re-evaluating your life.

Your encouragement as a 2:2 graduate should NOT come from the half-truth that 1st class and 2:1 graduates don't deserve their grades and barely measure up intellectually. They paid their dues, whatever it was. If they end up not successful in life, it is not because they had a first class or 2:1, in fact they might have been worse off with a 2:2. So my dear 2:2 graduates, your drive should be the desire to prove to yourself that you're better than what your grade says about you, not that people with better grades would most likely end up miserable.

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iamCEO:

Honestly, i'd expected your write up to justify your topic (claim, point or whichever way you put it), but it didn't.

It's very wrong of you, a lawyer for that matter, to say, "i am concerned with passing my message..." and that should be a good excuse for you to ignore the rules of writing. You should know, if you do not..., that proper paragraphing helps your readers understand you better.

Kindly take dressing and be properly guided.

Your concerned reader

When will I start writing like this.
I'm damn' poor in writting, whenever I see good one like this my heart bleed because it keeps reminding me of how far I'm from good write up. I admire your writting skills, pls I need your help

Craven:


So what if some first class and 2.1 graduates have nothing to offer? Who cares? That's not anyone's concern. What does that even have to do with anything?

There are better forms of motivation than "some first class and 2.1 graduates aren't worth their degrees".

Ummm last i checked i typed *some* i am a 2'1er myself

TheSlyone2:


Amicab.le09, abimbaw.ealth, Abim.bex007, Lero1.5, come ye hither and drag Mr. LastM.umu back to the chat room where he belong.

He don cause trouble, ba?

Nuges11:
It's becoming a disturbing trend how people talk down on first class and 2:1 graduates just to justify their own lesser grades. What is even more disturbing is the OP's conclusion that 2:1 graduates will end up "at most" as CEOs in companies set up by 2:2 students. Nothing is farther from the truth if you ask me, and I seriously pity undergraduates who would read this and see it as an encouragement to become less aggressive with their studies. As a matter of fact, if this post encourages you at all then you really need to start re-evaluating your life.

Your encouragement as a 2:2 graduate should NOT come from the half-truth that 1st class and 2:1 graduates don't deserve their grades and barely measure up intellectually. They paid their dues, whatever it was. If they end up not successful in life, it is not because they had a first class or 2:1, in fact they might have been worse off with a 2:2. So my dear 2:2 graduates, your drive should be the desire to prove to yourself that you're better than what your grade says about you, not that people with better grades would most likely end up miserable.

I couldn't have said it better. The fact remains 1st class n 2.1 graduates are better and smatter than their mates while in school. There is a reason for grades people. Note: I said better while in school. The real world is a different ball game entirely though and one has to measure up no matter what you graduate with.
Whatever you do, do it well. @ op you own a law firm right and I presume you manage it well. That makes you a 1st class or 2.1 (above average) entrepreneur. Stop this hating on 1st class or 2.1 graduates abeg. They are simply better while in school.