PRETAH?SMITH had a double formula for this year’s Common Entrance Examination – she studied and she prayed.
And the formula worked for the deeply religious 11-year-old student from Wesley Hall Primary School, who scored the fifth highest mark overall in this year’s examination.
“I?feel blessed and proud by the grace of God,” she quietly said as her classmates screamed and danced around her in jubilation.
Pretah, who is involved in the church choir and the dance ministry at the Collymore Rock Church of the Nazarene, said she found the English examination very easy. She scored 99 in English, 99 in mathematics and an A in Composition for a converted score of 249.96A. And she said this was the first step towards her goal of becoming a doctor.
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