Cambridge AS-Level student is ‘Top in the World’ for maths


Top student: Teh said passion and practice are the most important elements to achieving something.

GEORGE TOWN: A student who scored 100 marks in the challenging Cambridge AS-Level Mathematics paper got a bigger surprise when Cambridge Assessment International Education conferred him the “Top in the World” award for the subject.

Teh Yu Xuan, 19, confessed to loving maths but said he never thought it could be possible to score 100/100 for AS-Level Mathematics.

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