Well I wrote my Class 12 board exams in 2012. I scored 95.8% and got into AIIMS in my first attempt, but this post is not about me.
So I had this friend, well I knew him from when we joined school in 1st standard. We were and are the closest of friends. But yeah he got 92% in his class 12 boards after working a lot and he was disappointed.
He got into a good engineering college and worked there too. He worked very hard maintaining his scores at the top. He used his disappointment to his advantage.
As of now he has a Job at Cisco as a top notch Security Analyst, youngest on the team. He has gotten an epic pay package and is one of the most sought after in the field. (Frankly I’m very jealous of him now).