s academic performance the best indicator of success in life?

No

The definition of success differs from person to person and field to

field. One could take economics success as the ingredients to label
a person successful in life. Others may look at it as a capacity to
overcome challenges, irrespective of what someone ears and the
nature of their private life. So who is a successful person and who
is a failure? Do school choices and school grades provide way of
predicting or ensure future success? If this is true should there be
more emphasis on students to work hard and gain formal
qualifications. But is this true? Aren’t some college drop-outs like
Bill Gates and Richard Branson successful icons of success? And
should we automatically consider the millions of young people who
have not had the opportunity to gain academic certificates to be
failures in life?

First, success never depends on grades. If success was solely

based on grades than employers and potential social partners
would not ask for biodata and resumes. Why would employers
bother interviewing prospects in order to find out what they are like
as people? They would just hire based on the best paper
qualifications. Certain people do very well in school however they
spend their lives in a prison facility. So qualifications alone are
never enough to determine a guaranteed success. Success also
depends on physical characteristics, personality and motivations.

Secondly, success is not a grade or a degree, if that was the case

then why aren’t all graduates from Mc Gill, Ottawa U
and University of Toronto not all successful? The rule of success is
hard work and destiny. If a student gets good grades but is not
effective in relationship building, solving crisis, and proper planning
even though he might be successful at acquiring a job his life could
lack the basics like love, family, stability and