When you're in the middle of exams, it can feel like they're taking over your whole life.
From the ages of 15 to 18, your summers seem packed full of revision and the existential dread that you won't get into the university you want to.
However, plenty of people who we now consider to be incredibly successful didn't actually do too well at school.
Everyone knows the stories about how Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of university to become two of the richest people in the world, but many other successful people didn't even get that far.
Scroll down to see how academie wasn't suited for 15 highly successful people — and how it didn't matter anyway.
Richard Branson left school at 16.
Branson never had much interest in school, dropping out at 16 to start his first business — a magazine called "Student."
His headmaster, Robert Drayson, told him he would either end up in prison or become a millionaire, according to The Telegraph.
He achieved the latter, and now the Virgin Group owns over 200 companies in 30 countries around the world.
Simon Cowell passed barely any exams.
In the music industry, very few opinions matter more than those of Simon Cowell. He wasn't always the top dog, though. Cowell left school with just one O level — the equivalent of GCSEs — and dropped out at just 16.
He began his career working in the mailroom at his father's company EMI Music Publishing, according to Biography.com. There, he was eventually promoted to a talent scout, then left during the early 80s to form E&S Music with his boss Ellis Rich.
After a few short-lived successes with several companies, Cowell made his name at BMG Records where he sold more than 150 million records and 70 top-of-the-chart singles in the UK and US.
Drew Barrymore quit school after rehab.
Drew Barrymore is now an incredibly successful actor, producer, and businesswoman. However, she had a turbulent childhood after being sucked into the acting industry at just three years old.
She was in rehab by her 13th birthday, according to The Guardian, and decided not to carry on with education when she came out.
Despite all this, she turned things around and founded production company Fower Films in 1995, which was responsible for "Charlie's Angels" and "Donnie Darko."
She is also now an Ambassador Against Hunger for the UN World Food Programme.
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