An 11-year-old Filipina girl topped an English excellence test administered throughout the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the news site Gulf News reported on Thursday.
Jireh Eunice Flores beat every other Middle East student in the 50-question International Benchmark Test (IBT) Award for Excellence in English, making only two mistakes in the test.
She received a plaque and a Dh500 (P5,858) prize for her achievement.
The IBT is an internationally administered program of assessments that benchmarks student performance in three subjects: Mathematics, Science, and English.
The Australian Council for Educational Research (Acer), one of the world's leading research and assessment services organizations, regularly conducts the exam in the region.
Flores, a Grade Five student at the United International Private School (UIPS), told Gulf News: "I was shocked, I didn't expect it. But God willed it to happen."
"The exam was not very difficult. But I was nervous and I just did my best. I liked the reading comprehension because I like reading stories," she added.
Flores is an only child whose father is an accountant and whose mother is a housewife.
Flores said she has already started writing her own book.
"I started writing the book last summer ... I was inspired by the Nancy Drew mystery stories. So the book I'm writing now runs along the lines of solving mysteries, too," she said.
In 2010, another Filipino UIPS student, third-grader Emmanuelle Coleen Landayan, received the IBT Award for Excellence in Science.
Source: GMA News
Jireh Eunice Flores beat every other Middle East student in the 50-question International Benchmark Test (IBT) Award for Excellence in English, making only two mistakes in the test.
She received a plaque and a Dh500 (P5,858) prize for her achievement.
The IBT is an internationally administered program of assessments that benchmarks student performance in three subjects: Mathematics, Science, and English.
The Australian Council for Educational Research (Acer), one of the world's leading research and assessment services organizations, regularly conducts the exam in the region.
Flores, a Grade Five student at the United International Private School (UIPS), told Gulf News: "I was shocked, I didn't expect it. But God willed it to happen."
"The exam was not very difficult. But I was nervous and I just did my best. I liked the reading comprehension because I like reading stories," she added.
Flores is an only child whose father is an accountant and whose mother is a housewife.
Flores said she has already started writing her own book.
"I started writing the book last summer ... I was inspired by the Nancy Drew mystery stories. So the book I'm writing now runs along the lines of solving mysteries, too," she said.
In 2010, another Filipino UIPS student, third-grader Emmanuelle Coleen Landayan, received the IBT Award for Excellence in Science.
Source: GMA News
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