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These people failed their exams and now look at them

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Jeremy Clarkson, JK Rowling, Jon Snow, Deborah Meaden, Sarah Millican – all massive failures (Picture: BBC; Getty; Rex; PA)

Not everyone passes their exams with flying colours.

So if you’re worried about what’s about to happen, let us remind you about a collection of people who did rather well when they finished school.

We think you’ll agree, they all seem to be doing alright for themselves.

Simon Cowell

Simon left school with just three O-levels (the equivalent to GCSEs) but now look at him – his musical opinion is one of the most valued in showbiz.

He spends his life judging other people’s abilities but he certainly didn’t have the X Factor at school.

Simon chose not to do his A-levels and landed a job in the mail room of EMI instead. It appears it was a wise decision.

Simon Cowell didn’t have the X Factor when it came to his A-levels (Picture: Rex/Shutterstock)
Jeremy Clarkson famously got a C and two Us (Picture: Brian J Ritchie/Hotsauce/REX)

Jeremy Clarkson

The Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? host isn’t shy about telling you about how he failed his exams.

In fact, he makes the same smug point every year.

2018

2017

2016

You get the picture…

Who needs A-levels? Not Deborah Meaden (Picture: Rex/Shutterstock)

Deborah Meaden

The Dragons’ Den star left school before taking her A-levels, instead opting to study business at college.

Well, it paid off.

Today she’s worth in excess of £40 million and has been awarded a grand total of three honorary degrees.

Richard Branson is a Sir and owns his own island. Oh, and he dropped out of school (Picture: Rex/Shutterstock)

Richard Branson

Richard Branson may have dropped out of school at 16, but he’s doing pretty well for himself.

He put in a lot of hard work and rose to the top, and is now roughly worth $5 billion.

And he’s got some strong words of too: ‘Young people need empowerment and encouragement, not sleepless nights worrying about hitting their exam targets.

‘They need to learn to take risks and not to be afraid of failure. Failure is part of life, especially in business. The key is to learn from it.’

Jake Humprey has done alright for himself (Picture: Rex/Shutterstock)

Jake Humphrey

Jake Humphrey failed across the board in his A-levels, picking up an E, N and U.

He also got fired from McDonald’s on the same day he picked them up.

But he didn’t let that define his life. He applied for an internship with ITV and is now the face of Premier League football on BT Sport.

It’s Clare Balding! (Picture: AMA/Getty Images)

Clare Balding

The beloved broadcaster was arrested for shoplifting in her youth, and didn’t get good grades in History and Latin at A-level.

She took two years out after school to retake exams and practise her interview technique to help her get into Cambridge.

Well, her determination paid off. She nailed her history re-sit and got into one of the best universities in the world. Bravo.

Prince Harry got a D geography (Picture: Rex/Shutterstock)

Prince Harry

Prince Harry had access to some of the best education in the world, but it didn’t stop him getting a D in his geography A-level.

While it certainly helps to have a Queen for a grandmother, his educational blip didn’t held him back.

He served in the Army for ten years, became the youth ambassador to the Commonwealth, and set up the Invictus Games for wounded veterans.

It doesn’t appear that J.K. Rowling has been hindered too much by her A-level results (Picture: Rex/Shutterstock)

JK Rowling

She always dreamed of studying languages at Oxford, but her A-level results meant she didn’t get in.

Instead she studied at the University of Exeter and has gone on to write arguably the most successful fiction series in history – you may have heard of it.

Rowling is now thought to be worth $1 billion, not too bad.

Jon Snow, the journo with the ties (Picture: David Fisher/REX/Shutterstock)

Jon Snow

Jon Snow once said ‘there is life after A-levels’ and his personal story confirms this.

He’s one of the most successful TV journalists in the UK, but when he was at school, he got a C in English and failed all his other A-level subjects.

Despite his A-level woes, Snow did go on to study at the University of Liverpool, where he was suspended after standing up against the apartheid regime in South Africa during a student protest in 1970.

Sarah Millican (Picture: Rex/Shutterstock)

Sarah Millican

Comedian Sarah Millican finished her A-levels with two Ds and an E, but now spreads the word that ‘good exam results are useful but not the be all and end all’.

She sends heartwarming messages to students each year to remind them that ‘if you don’t get what you need it isn’t the end of the world’.



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