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Dubai teen among top 1% globally in SAT test scores Nandini Sircar/Dubai Supplied photo Sreekar Gudipati scored 1570 out of 1,600 points in the SAT test. Sreekar Gudipati who scored 1570 out of 1,600 points in the SAT test ranks among the top one per cent of millions of SAT test takers globally. The 17-year old student of GEMS FirstPoint School – The Villa whose A-Level subjects are Maths, Further Maths, Economics and Computer Science, managed an exemplary score of 770/800 in English and 800/...

UAE students ace A-Level and IGSCE exams Filed on March 4, 2021 Supplied photo The UK government cancelled the usual GCSEs and A-level exams this year because of Covid-19 restrictions. The latest A-Levels and IGCSE exam results are out — and UAE students got ‘impressive’ scores, school heads reported on Thursday. Students in Years 11, 12 and 13 received either final grades or modular results on Thursday across subjects like Arabic, English, biology, chemistry, physics, geography, ...

Dubai: Some Dubai schools have this term seen a huge spike in students switch from distance learning to direct classes on campus. School principals said growing confidence in COVID-19 safety measures at school, a desire to experience school life again and the arrival of vaccines for the coronavirus are some reasons why more students are coming to school. Last term, before the winter break, 47 per cent of Dubai private school pupils were exclusively engaged in distance learning until November, t...

As the UK enters another strict lockdown and British schools close once again due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, it has been announced that UK A-Levels and GCSE examinations will not take place in Summer 2021. The majority of private-school pupils in Dubai study a UK curriculum, with 106,773 students learning under the British system, followed by 73,990 students studying the Indian curriculum, according to 2020 Knowledge and human Development Authority (KHDA) figures. Although schools rem...