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Academic achievements at school or university is the only true measure of a person’s intelligence. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

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Most of the people believe that marks and percentage decide how much a person is smart and intelligent in every
way
. I totally disagree with
this
 statement, and the
way
 the educational institutes portray the image of a child in front of the world on the basis of their academic scores. A child's
intelligence
 cannot be measured through the
way
 he performs in his school/university examinations, but other factors that proves how smart he is.
Therefore
, the level of maturity, the
way
 he reacts to a particular situation, able to decide what is good and bad for him, and the personality decides how intelligent a student is. Schools and universities create a lot of mess in the mind of the society and create the pressure of getting good grades in the exam, and makes it their biggest rule of judging the
intelligence
 of an individual.
However
, there are many successful business tycoons which prove
such
 education system wrong, that marks are just a game of numbers and not a
way
 to decide a person's
intelligence
. People like Mark Zukerberg, or the CEO of Alibaba
are
Suggestion
is
 the great examples in showing that even the failures from school can become one of the biggest millionaires in the world. To conclude, the grades and other achievements in schools doesn't decide a person's
intelligence but
Accept comma addition
intelligence, but
 the talent, ideas, and the overall personality decides the
intelligence
 of a student. It is the duty of the educational institutes to motivate their students to showcase their talent, and perform in every activity to make them intelligent in every sector.
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