Achievement: 11-year-old gets eight straight A’s

Statement says Malik is the “third” Roots student to make a “world record” after Ali Moin Nawazish and Danish Shabbir.

An 11-year-old student at Roots School System’s DHA-1 campus in Islamabad has secured eight straight A’s in O levels examinations, according to a statement issued by the school.

The school claims Faraz Kaiser Malik is “the youngest student in the world to ever appear in the Cambridge O-Levels International Examination.”

The statement says Malik is the “third” Roots student to make a “world record” after Ali Moin Nawazish (21 straight A’s in A levels) and Danish Shabbir (23 straight A’s in the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) examinations of the University of Cambridge in 2012. On Wednesday, the DHA-1 campus held a ceremony to honour its high achieving students.

Another student Aun Abbas, who received the prestigious Cambridge 800th Anniversary scholarship worth £147,000, was also honoured at the ceremony.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 24^th, 2013.