AFP News – Sat, Feb 26, 2011 6:38 AM PHT
(AFP) - A 16-year-old Hong Kong student notched up the highest grade in an international math test, his school said Friday, despite barely studying for an exam he claimed "wasn't very difficult."
Anthony Leung took the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) exams last June, when he was 15, and learned this week that he topped thousands of other students.
"It was quite a shock. I was very surprised and certainly happy," Leung told local paper The South China Morning Post. "My parents were happy, a little surprised -- but, like me, they don't quite believe it."
A school spokeswoman said Leung received a certificate from Britain's prestigious Cambridge University saying he had the world's highest grade.
The test, designed for 14- to 16-year-olds and given at schools that teach an international curriculum, was divided into three sections, including one exam that had to be completed without a calculator, the report said. It covered statistics, trigonometry and geometry, among other topics.
"It wasn't very difficult but certainly challenging," Leung said. "But since that wasn't the only exam I was sitting, I didn't study much."
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