Amaechina, 16, scored nine A1s in 2023 WASSCE
By Emma Ogbuehi
Another Anambra-born female student, Miss Amaechina Chimbusonma Nwadiuto, is topping the charts in this year’s West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
Miss Amaechina of the Regina Pacis Girls’ Secondary School, Garki, Abuja is now in a pole position for the National Merit Award as the overall best candidate in this year’s WASSCE conducted by the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, as she got A1 in all the nine papers she sat for during the examination.
A report in the Vanguard newspaper, on Saturday, said Miss Amaechina, 16, from Anambra State, got distinctions in Data Processing, Christian Religious Studies, Civic Education, English Language, Further Mathematics, Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry and Physics.
The girl, who scored 313 in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, applied to study Medicine at the University of Abuja.
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Speaking on the development, her mother, Mrs. Ijeoma Amaechina, said the girl has consistently maintained top position in her class since her primary school days.
“She is the fourth child of the family and she likes to sing and makes friends. Apart from her natural talents, I can describe her as a goal getter. She puts her mind to whatever she wants to achieve. I give God the glory,” she said in a chat with Vanguard.
Students of Anambra State extraction have consistently topped the charts in national and international examinations.
Earlier, a female student from Anambra State, Kamsiyochukwu Nkechinyere Umeh, a student of Deeper Life High School, had the highest score of 360 in the 2023 UTME.
She also cleared all her papers in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) with 8 A1 and a B2.
The 16-year-old Kamsiyochukwu scored A1 in English Language, Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology, Further Mathematics, Economics, Civic Education, Computer Studies and Dyeing and Bleaching, and a B2 in Physics.
She gained nationwide recognition for being the top scorer in the 2023 UTME with a cumulative mark of 360.
In her UTME, She scored 99 in Chemistry, 98 in Mathematics, 97 in Physics, and 66 in English.
Kamsiyochukwu applied to the University of Lagos to study Chemical Engineering.
