Palani’s tips for students on being successful

Stay motivated and pick up Mandarin to make yourself marketable, says the MIC president to SPM students.

PETALING JAYA: MIC president G Palanivel today urged students to remain motivated and be easily marketable in order to be successful.

“Motivation is the key to success. A person who stays motivated will succeed in life,” he said while addressing some 1,200 students who will be sitting for the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia examination later this year.

The students were attending a ’1Malaysia – The Most Powerful PMR and SPM Seminars 2011′ held at the Segi College at Kota Damansara here today.

The seminar was organised by Ti-Ratana Community Centre and this is the ninth year the centre has organised such seminar for students who will be sitting for SPM.

alanivel, who is also a minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, said education was a life long journey.

“It does not end when the formal schooling life of a person ends.”

He said it takes great effort to stay motivated. But, he stressed that it has to be done in order to succeed in life.

Palanivel also urged the non-Mandarin speaking students to take up Mandarin.

“Students who can speak Mandarin are said to be easily “marketable” and I heard they also get paid higher because the language is being more and more widely used in the business circle.”

The students were also blessed by leaders of all the faiths in Malaysia.