PM LEE Hsien Loong [2A1B] spent 4 years in the wilderness 

1.  Fact 1:  PM LEE Hsien Loong [2A1B] was born on 10 Feb 1952.

2.  My wife reported that she was 1 year his junior in the then only junior college, the premier National Junior College [NJC] which was specially built for 2A1B's A Levels studies, filled with the best students in the country, with the best principal, teachers, facilities, no money or effort spared for this princeling.

3.  I am 6 years older than my wife but only 2 years older than 2A1B.

4.  So, clearly, something is fishy, if not outright stinking.  Let me logically explain:

5.  In Singapore, students start the 6-year Primary schooling at 6 years of age.  Thus, 2A1B started Primary school in 1958.  He finished Primary 6, taking the Primary School Leaving Exam [which determines whether you go on to a good or inferior Secondary school, for 4 years, until Secondary 4, in which year you take your O Levels exam, usually 8 subjects with a minimum of 6 subjects for a Pass].

6.  Thus, if 2A1B had not been a cheating student princeling son of the PM LEE Kuan Yew, he would have:

At age 6 entered Primary 1 and finished Primary 6 at age 11 [or 12 depending on whether his birthday is early or late in the year]

Then, at age 12 or 13, entered Secondary 1, finishing Secondary 4 O Levels exam at age 15 or latest 16.

Then, at age 16 or 17, entered NJC First Year, to finish Second Year A Levels at age 17 or 18.

7.  We know for a fact that 2A1B took THREE years to do his A Levels at NJC, taking his A Levels twice, taking only 3 subjects in his first attempt, scoring 2As and 1B, on the basis of which, of these 3 subjects, he was awarded the premier scholarship in the country, the President's Scholarship!!!

8.  From para 2, when my wife was in Year 1 in NJC, she was 17, so would have been 1973 BUT IN 1973, 2A1B WAS 21 YEARS OLD, practically a superannuated old man among the teenagers in NJC!!!  In fact, at his age,  undergrads would have finished their degree courses, not merely sitting for the A Levels exams!!!

9.  THERE IS A BIGGER QUESTION.  Since 2A1B was in NJC Second Year in 1973, at the age of 21, where in Hell did he spend his years doing his O Levels just before he entered NJC at the age of 20???

10.  Working backwards, since he entered NJC Year 1 at the age of 20, he must have finished his O Levels at the age of 19 instead of the usual 15 or 16.

11.  Deduction 1:  2A1B took his O Level exams 4 times, from the age of 15 until 19, in order to score better grades, since he is as mediocre as his father in terms of brain power and intelligence.

12.  Or, more likely, Deduction 2:  from what we know of his taking his A Levels TWICE, he also took his O Levels cumulatively over 4 years, taking say, 2-3 subjects per year, instead of like every other student, taking all 8 subjects in 1 sitting.  Spreading out the exams over 4 years requires special permission from the Ministry of Education, since this is cheating.  We already know he cheated th in his A Level exams in NJC.  It only means 2A1B and his father, L conspired to cheat when 2A1B was only about 15 or 16 years old.  We also know that LKY was cheating even before he became PM, persuading the then British Colonial Govt to arrest his leader rivals in the PAP party, so he can become Secretary General and thus PM if he won the 1959 election.  We also know LKY embezzled 792 tonnes of platinum on 2 July 1972.  So cheating and embezzlement are part of the famiLEE character and DNA.

13.  Or, Deduction 3:  2A1B took his O Level exams at 15 or 16, then walked into the desert on a spiritual quest for self-discovery and the meaning of Life and spent the next 4 years wandering in the wilderness, hence arriving back to start his NJC at the age of 20.

14.  The reason 2A1B and his father LKY had to do all this convoluted cheating is that the Primary School Leaving Exam [PSLE] is a Singapore exam which LKY has no problem cheating to get 2A1B into the top Raffles Institution but the O Level and A Level exams are set and administered by Cambridge University, so much harder to fake.  Hence this convoluted superannuated cheating in exams.  Gong Xi Fa Cai!