Success in the Making

I’ve got 20 UCAS points, and I’m only in Year 9!

September 2nd, 2011 with 1 Comment

Despite our attention being focused last month on GCSE and A level results, exam results of a different kind were being received by our younger students in Hackney. Here, Haggerston School pupil Suprateeka Talukder explains more….

As a gifted student in mathematics, me and four friends were encouraged to do something extra. Instead of completing a GCSE maths or an A-level maths earlier (which would be too risky) we decided to complete a Free-standing Maths Qualification which is equivalent to an A-level module and awards UCAS points!

We studied A level maths for one year, including calculas, trigonometry, binomial theoram, circle theoram, kinematics, area between curves using intergration and differentiation etc. After all of that, long and hard study at home and during the holidays and extreme dedication from our maths teacher, the exam day finaly arrived.

I was very nervous after the exam and was afraid I did not do as well as I should’ve done.

However when I received my results I was incredibly ecstatic to be given an A, the highest possible grade. Not only was I the first to receive an A and one of the first to do the exam in Haggerston School’s history, but I also get 20 ucas points at only Year 9! So I am already making a pathway towards university.

I wouldn’t have dared to think that I have the ability to do A-level maths and achieve the highest grade

Doing this shows that the impossible can be made possible and hard work and strong dedication will be paid off!