Wendy Jasson da Costa
FRATERNAL twins Nic and Scott Roberts are different in every way, except that they both scored eight distinctions in their 2011 Grade 12 final exams.
“All A’s, yo!” said an excited Nic after hearing that he had also cracked distinctions in Afrikaans and Maths 3. The Westville Boys’ High pupil said he would do a BCom Accounting degree at UCT or UKZN.
Scott was heading to UCT, where he would study medicine.
“We are completely different in every way. I’m an introvert and Scott’s an extrovert who does drama and things like that,” said Nic.
There was healthy competition between the two, and both had worked hard because they did not want to be beaten by the other.
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Cassim Mahomedy, the deaf boy that did well in his matric, their custom is you eat sweet things when you hear good news
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Like Nic, Scott was surprised by his distinction for Maths 3.
“The secret is to do as much as you need to do, but don’t overdo it,” he said.
His friend, Jean-Marie Victor of Westville Girl’s High, also achieved eight distinctions and had been provisionally accepted to study medicine at Free State University.
“Everyone was worried about Maths 3… it was an extra subject and an extra paper,” she said of her A in the subject.
Another Westville Girls’ High pupil, Priyanka Naidoo, also got eight distinctions.
“I’m so elated,” said her mom, Kogie, the principal of Ashley Primary in Pinetown, before dashing off to tell Priyanka, who was on duty at her part-time job at the Pavilion shopping centre.
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“Maths was the hardest, but it is also my favourite subject,” said Priyanka. She planned to study law and then specialise in medical law at UKZN. However, no one was more thankful than another Westville Girl’s High top achiever, Sanaya Meherjina.
Sanaya wrote nine subjects, from which she scored eight distinctions, including one in Afrikaans.
What sets her results apart is that Sanaya is originally from Karachi, Pakistan, and has only been in South Africa since Grade 10.
Her dad, Ronnie, said her principal had been worried at first that she might battle with English, and especially Afrikaans, as she had never heard the language before. But Sanaya had been confident she could tackle all the subjects she had chosen, he said.
Sanaya plans to study business science at UKZN.
