Results to smile about
Successful University Entrance mathematics candidates, Audrey Tan (left), aged 11, and Masen Ma, aged 12, with results they received yesterday. About 24,000 University Entrance candidates will receive their examination results this week. A total of 16,000 candidates were accredited.
The sixth-form University Entrance examination has now been abolished. Most who sat it were aged about 16. Masen’s mark was 78, and Audrey’s 77. Both enjoy mathematics.
Audrey was “pleasantly surprised” to find she had passed. Her brother, David Tan, also sat his University Entrance mathematics when aged 10, in 1977. Audrey said she was nervous at the examination and had not been confident of passing.
“I don’t feel very special,” she said. The study had been hard work. Masen said he sat the examination for the challenge.
Last year he was at Cobham Intermediate School. He will attend Burnside High School this year. He did the mathematics course at Papanui High School night classes. Audrey was at Burnside Primary School before taking a term off school to be tutored at home. She studied through the Correspondence School.
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Press, 25 January 1986, Page 1
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181Results to smile about Press, 25 January 1986, Page 1
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