In some parents' eyes, school grades matter most for their kids.

在一些家长眼中，学校成绩对他们的孩子来说是最重要的。

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So the fact of the matter is many of you in your initial papers will get lower grades than you've probably ever gotten before in your life.

实际上，你们中很多人在第一篇论文上,所得的分数可能比这小半辈子得过的都低。

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The report warns that graduates without work experience will struggle to get jobs no matter how good their grades.

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The classes matter, as do the grades.

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If success in school is a function of intelligence and hard work, and less intelligent students have to work harder to achieve the same grades as their more intelligent counterparts, only hard work seems to matter in predicting career success.

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