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Chidera Ota
The Supergirl Who Racked up 15 AS Levels
Chidera, we are proud of you! You’re thoroughly an Igbo girl
Chidera Ota led the GCSE roll of honour yesterday with 15 A’s.
Chidera, who studied Latin twice a week in her lunch break, has gained a scholarship to attend King's School, Canterbury, where she will study chemistry, physics, biology, maths and further maths A-levels.
The 16-year-old pupil at Highsted Grammar School, Sittingbourne, Kent, achieved the grades in English literature and language, maths, statistics, French, German, Latin, history, sociology, chemistry, biology, physics and an IT qualification worth three GCSEs.
Chidera, who lives with her Nigerian-born parents - Uchenna, a GP, and Mercy, a nurse - in the Isle of Sheppey, wants to become a doctor.
She said: 'I stayed home a lot and put a lot of work into my GCSEs. I want to become a doctor so I know it's a very hard and competitive field and I need to do extremely well to get into medicine.
'I want to go to a top university and have already looked around Oxford and Cambridge. I think I'd like to go to St John's College at Cambridge.'
Seven-year-old OSCAR SELBY achieved an A* in GCSE maths - the youngest person to gain the super grade.
Source: Daily Mail, 30th August 2010.
After 15 ‘AS’, Nigerian girl gains scholarship for
A-Level in UK
A 16-year-old Nigerian girl has grabbed headlines in the United Kingdom after she got 15As in her GCSE. She has subsequently gained a scholarship to attend King’s School, reports Daily Mail
A nigerian wonder girl Chidera Ota, who got 15As in her GCSE in the United Kingdom, has gained a scholarship to attend King’s School, Canterbury where she will study Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Mathematics and Further Maths in her A-Levels.
The 16-year-old pupil at Highsted Grammar School, Sittingbourne, Kent, achieved the grades in English Literature and Language, Maths, Statistics, French, German, History, Sociology, Chemistry, Biology, Physics, an IT qualification worth three GCSEs and in Latin, which she studied in her lunch break.
Chidera, who lives with her Nigerian-born parents - Uchenna, a GP, and Mercy, a nurse - in the Isle of Sheppey, wants to become a doctor.
She said: "I stayed home a lot and put a lot of work into my GCSEs. I want to become a doctor so I know it’s a very hard and competitive field and I need to do extremely well to get into medicine.
"I want to go to a top university and have already looked around Oxford and Cambridge . I think I’d like to go to St John’s College at Cambridge."
Another five-year old girl, Dee, who lives with her parents, Joy and Rasheed Alli, in Southwark, South London , gained a C in Maths - after finding the exam ‘very easy’.
The youngster, who enjoys singing and watching television, starts primary school next month.
Last November, she began attending Saturday classes with Excellence in Education, an educational charity which aims to help talented youngsters in inner cities.
Dee said: ‘I find maths very, very easy. I didn’t know I was taking the examination - I thought it was a game. Maths is a big game with numbers.
‘I found it very easy because it was mostly questions about the difference between numbers. I’m very surprised to be the youngest ever. I’m very proud of myself.’
Last summer, Dee ‘s brother, Jude, hit the headlines when he sat for his maths GCSE aged six and gained a D.
Source: The Nation, 30th August 2010.
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