A report by the youth charity says too many school leavers write off their chances of finding a good job and achieving economic independence due to failing to get good grades at GCSEs.
A YouGov survey of 2,342 young people aged 16 to 25 carried out for the report, reveals that 20 per cent had abandoned their ambitions due to poor qualifications.
Follow up interviews with 164 young people who left school with less than five A*-C GCSE grades found that one in four thought that their lives would always be held back by their exam results.
While one in six of all young people surveyed thought they would "end up on benefits", this increases to one in three of those with poor grades. Young people who failed to achieve success at GCSEs were also twice as likely as their peers to say they would "never amount to anything", the study found.
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