Student Sits for 22 A-Levels

January 30th, 2009

We usually concentrate on schools stories in North America, here at College — U. Got It? but sometimes things far from our borders catch our attention. Take for instance, one overachieving high school graduate from Pakistan, Ali Moeen Nawazish. When Nawazish decided to apply to the prestigious U.K. institution, Cambridge University, he didn’t settle for taking the recommended four A-Level exams — he decided to sit for 22 instead.

Roughly comparable to the Advanced Placement exams given to students in the U.S., the A-Levels are no cakewalk — yet, Nawazish still snagged an A on 20 of his tests. What’s more, his experience with some of the subjects he was tested on, like psychology, only extended as far back as three days before the test date.

Now working on his computer science degree as a Cambridge freshman, Nawazish plans to move to also get a degree in medicine so that he can join his family in their careers as doctors.

– Genevieve M. Blaber

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