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Multi-cultural, Multi-national, Singularly SuccessfulStudents Mehrad Jaberi, Harikrishnan Patel and Nguyen Hoang Viet have 15 A grade A-levels between them after a tremendously successful year at Belgravia’s Abbey College. The boys are, variously, from Vietnam, Iran and Kenya and joined the College in 2007. As well as their outstanding A-level results they have gathered an array of awards from the British Biology, Chemistry and Mathematics Olympiads. Viet will now go on to read engineering at Trinity College Cambridge whilst Harikrishnan will be studying medicine at Southampton and Mehrad will be studying physiology at McGill in Canada. Other AAA grade students attending university this year include Min Jiawei (Wadham College, Oxford, mathematics), Huong Nguyen (Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, engineering), Pavandeep Bansal (Imperial, mathematics), Nguyen Trong Vu (UCL, economics), Pham Tra My (UCL, Economics) and Jade Yap (Imperial, engineering).The College has maintained its tradition of being a provider of future generations of doctors, dentists and pharmacists and from the amongst this cohort this year notable AAA grade successes include Elizabeth Colman-Nally (medicine), Rawa Jawad (dentistry), Pritesh Dodhia (pharmacy), John Kinley (medicine) and Rami Khalil (medicine). The College has had an outstanding year with more than 50% of students achieving A grades and in a time of continuing debate about hard and easy A-level subjects, this level of success has been achieved with 83% of the College’s entries being for further mathematics, mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry and economics.
21 Shining A-level Stars
Twenty one A* grades appeared on students’ A-level results sheets at Abbey College London amidst another very successful year for the College that saw 39% of A-level results being graded A* or A. This excellent achievement by Abbey College London’s students and staff is also set within the context of the College focusing on mathematics, sciences and economics; in other words what are regarded by many, including the top universities, as the traditional, more difficult A-levels.
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