@Bandersnatch aww how touching you had to mention someone who finished from my secondary skool how inspiring! I can categorically tell you that apart from the engineering courses or number crunching professions where you basically follow laid down procedures any organisation who expects you to reason and come up with solutions will not even consider a first class. A business analyst or an change management consultant at KPMG,Accenture,McKinsey and Company,Deloitte,PricewaterHouseCoopers would be more expected to hit a party and socialize well when the need arises. Or do you want to talk about investment bankers who are expected to be the life of a party to attract customers?? Or you want a HR person who would go by the book when ur particular case is peculiar and not refered to in any book??
The points are all there.
Final word from me on this issue is Show me an entrepreneur who finished with a first class? Just 1 in the world and I would succumb to whatever you say!