Meet Chidera Ota-The Nigerian Supergirl Who Racked Up 15A*s In UK GCSEs
FEATURE, NEWS — By admin on September 1, 2010 at 4:02 am
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.
Latin in her lunch break: Chidera Ota got 15A*s in her GCSEs
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.’
…Here comes Dee Alli-The Five Year Old Nigeria Who Made UK GCSE History
This year also saw another record broken with five-year-old Dee Alli becoming the youngest person to pass a GCSE.
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 exam - 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 his maths GCSE aged six and gained a D.
Source: UK Daily Mail.
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