Beating the odds to practise law


If you put your heart and soul into it, you can do well, says Chua who is now a prosecutor. - The Straits Times/Asia News Network

JASON Chua never expected to make it to university. In fact, he never gave much thought to what he would do past secondary school.

At Stamford Primary School, he scored a dismal 151 points in the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE), which landed him in the Normal (Technical) stream, for the least academically inclined pupils.

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