8-Year-Old Boy Sets A-Level Maths Record 16
krou writes "The BBC is reporting that an 8-year-old boy, Zohaib Ahmed, from Hampshire, UK, has set a new record for the youngest person to ever sit and pass A-level maths with an A level grade. He scored 90% for the exam, and claimed his success was down to his parents. "My parents helped me out a lot. My dad taught me some maths and my mum sorted everything out. I couldn't have done it without them." More importantly for the /. community, the mother firmly believed in good planning, and gave them plenty of leisure time — to play computer games (and watch television)."
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Individuals who pass the A-levels are rewarded with the use of a secret website that describes the world to them: Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]
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Individuals who pass the A-levels are rewarded with the use of a secret website that describes the world to them: Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]
Haaaaaaaaaa ha !
I cheated !
Re:A-levels? (Score:4, Informative)
A Levels are a form of qualification that are typically earned after two years of study from age 16 to 18 (although they can be taken in later life, as necessary). Coupled with GCSEs (qualifications you receive when you finish high school at 16) they're the qualifications you use to apply to university.
The key point is that (until some recent law changes) high school (or secondary school, as we tend to call it) finishes at age 16 in the UK. I left school at 16 and went straight out to work, for example. It gets a bit confusing though because I have no A Levels (having left school at 16) but I could probably get on to an undergraduate course as a "mature student" due to the experience I have in my fields.
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2013 [bbc.co.uk] is recent?
Can you tell me when the stock market will bottom out (or rather did bottom out, from when you're standing)?
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Invest in Baltic DRI,
Move to India in 2011.
You will live like a king, until you die at the age of 147 in the arms of a 23 year old flight attendant.
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Universities do degrees in being a thick pillock who doesn't know what year it is? Disgraceful. In my day, you had to go to a polytechnic for that.
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You replied to this twice over the span of a week? People.. :)
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s/people/kids today/
Sometimes I bookmark posts to respond to; seems I sometimes forget that I already did. Shit, that makes it three!
What happens to these kids years later? (Score:2)
I want to know, what are they doing now?
Is there some loser 30 yr old guy out there who can't hold a job, living with his parents, but can still recite every state and capitol, or do these kids actually go on and do amazing things?
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well, the move onto reciting every comic book character....
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