SINGAPORE – When Ms Ang Li Khim received her O-level results in early 1989, she found that she had failed the most important paper, English.
“When I got the result, I went home, covered myself with a blanket and cried. I didn’t know what to do,” recalls the alumnus of Thomson Secondary School, which was later renamed North Vista Secondary School.
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