The school management of Topfaith International Secondary School Mkpatak has presented a cash prize of N420k to a 16-year-old brilliant boy, Master Valour Mbre-Inyang, for his brilliant performance in the 2022 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination.
The brilliant boy has set a unique academic record in the school since its establishment 20yrs back as he aced his West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination with nine A1s.
The chairman, the Board of Governors of the institution, Dr. Emmanuel Abraham, while presenting the prize in a ceremony on Monday in the school, lauded the awardee for making the school proud.
Abraham added that the achievements could not have come at a better time than now that the institution is celebrating its 20 years of existence.
He explained that the prize of $1000 was instituted by the board of governors for any student who could make unparallel A1 in the subjects she or he enroll in WASSCE, adding that the aim was to encourage the students to surpass expectations in their WASSCE.
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He said “Over the years, a lot of Topfaith students came quite close to clinching the award, scoring 8 A1’s, but falling short of one to get the prize.”
He saluted Mbre-Inyang for his achievements in making all A-stars (A*s) in the five subjects he sat in Cambridge GCE, 343 out of 400 points in JAMB-UTME, 1480 out of 1600 points in Scholastic Aptitude Test as well as 8 out of 9 points in International English Language Test System.
He also used the opportunity to admonish the student participants to emulate the awardee, noting that Master Inyang, for his six years of studies at Topfaith, enjoyed tuition-free academic excellence Scholarship instituted by the school for the best students in each of the classes from JS1 to SS3.
He charged the students to learn such diligence that made the awardee achieve all of the feats and to graduate the Valedictorian of the 2022 class.
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