“I tried to study my lecturers to know what they wanted,” says AAUA Overall Best Graduating Student

The 2019/2020 Overall Best graduating student of Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba-Akoko (AAUA), Florence Akinwunmi has revealed that one of the major things that helped her in school was to study her lectures to know what they wanted.

Florence, who graduated from the Biochemistry Department with a 4.77 Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) also added that she didn’t know she would be the overall best graduating student in the school as she only wanted to be best in her department.

When asked how she was able to cope with  lecturers’ strict marking system, she said: “I tried to study my lecturers  to know what they wanted.”

She explained that no lecturer would want to fail his or her student, but students can only battle with marking guides

“As a student, we should know how to answer questions correctly. It is not a must you answer all questions during the examination, but the ones you answer should be well written,” she said.

Explaining her reading pattern she said: ”I read and assimilate during the day, I can’t read beyond 12 am in the midnight, so I spend the day judiciously. I can read from 7 am to 7 pm.”

On how she will impact the world, she said: “We all know this is an era of a pandemic. As a Biochemist, I can provide a solution to it. Cancer is also a major threat, we can also find a solution to that and many more through our research.”

While advising the students, she said: “The key to academic excellence is persistent reading. They must be studious, focused, disciplined and dedicated to their studies.

“They should do away with reading to pass but read to understand and most importantly prayer so as to sail through. Excellence is a journey. We must not be static. We must keep moving forward because this is just an achievement at the preliminary stage,” she concluded.

CREDIT: thenationonlineng.net, CAMPUSLIFE, ALLSCHOOL.

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