08-24-2019, 10:36 AM
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bo...s-18984335
An 11-year old-boy sat a GCSE maths exam four years early and passed with flying colours thanks to practising every day with his dad.
James Arzudia-Hughes, from Liverpool, scored a five in his GCSE foundation maths - the top grade a student can achieve in the exam, which is the equivalent of a high C or a low B.
His father, Gary Hughes, 56, spotted his son's penchant for numbers when they started preparing for exams to help year six pupil get into St Margaret's Secondary School in Liverpool this September.
They started revising together every day for just 15 minutes - which proved the perfect formula for James' success when he sat the extracurricular exams at Merchant Taylors' School in Crosby, Merseyside.
Gary said: "I started sitting down and doing 10 to 15 minutes a day with him and he was flying through quadratic equations and doing graphs using algebra.
Congrats to him ! I will note that this is just the Foundation-tier exam: you need to do the Higher-tier exam in order to get the top grades, but I wouldn't be surprised if this boy gets that a couple of years early too .
By contrast, we also have a student who finally passed her Maths GCSE on her ninth attempt . Congrats to her, and good on her for never giving up !
An 11-year old-boy sat a GCSE maths exam four years early and passed with flying colours thanks to practising every day with his dad.
James Arzudia-Hughes, from Liverpool, scored a five in his GCSE foundation maths - the top grade a student can achieve in the exam, which is the equivalent of a high C or a low B.
His father, Gary Hughes, 56, spotted his son's penchant for numbers when they started preparing for exams to help year six pupil get into St Margaret's Secondary School in Liverpool this September.
They started revising together every day for just 15 minutes - which proved the perfect formula for James' success when he sat the extracurricular exams at Merchant Taylors' School in Crosby, Merseyside.
Gary said: "I started sitting down and doing 10 to 15 minutes a day with him and he was flying through quadratic equations and doing graphs using algebra.
Congrats to him ! I will note that this is just the Foundation-tier exam: you need to do the Higher-tier exam in order to get the top grades, but I wouldn't be surprised if this boy gets that a couple of years early too .
By contrast, we also have a student who finally passed her Maths GCSE on her ninth attempt . Congrats to her, and good on her for never giving up !
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