9:36am Saturday 13th March 2010
By Simon Carr
ALGEBRA, quadratic equations and long division strike panic into the hearts of most adults.
But they are no problem for a record-breaking Hampshire schoolboy. Ten-year-old Zohaib Ahmed, pictured, of Chandler’s Ford, is the youngest pupil to get an A grade at A-level further maths.
The gifted number cruncher breezed his way into the record books with top grades in his maths A-level last year.
He said: “I was confident, maybe a little bit nervous just before the results arrived but I thought I had done well. I am proud to get this A and very pleased.”
The pint-sized prodigy admitted he is spurred on by his brainy older brother Wajih who at 12 has already passed his maths GCSE and A-levels and is currently doing physics, chemistry and physics early.
The bright siblings may have to take their A-levels again as a new A* grade will soon be introduced.
As they plan to be actuaries in the City of London they don’t want their A grades to hold them back.
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