NEWSLETTER

Students Collect IGCSE Certificates
Students from GIS have collected their IGCSE certificates following this year’s batch of
hugely successful examinations.
Among the star students were Syuen Wei Tang, or Jason, who was awarded 10 passes,
including 4 A*s and 5 As. Arpan Ojha gained 9 passes, all ranging from A*-B, while Hui
Eun Park was awarded 8 IGCSEs - 7 of which were A* - and Pauline Gallemit landed 9 A*-
C grades.
John Caules gained 7 passes, Coco Atkinson
was awarded 8 IGCSEs, while Pornchanok
Pornthipsakul (Khing) gained 8 passes, of which
all but one were A* or As. Elsewhere, Vishal Iyer
had 9 grades between A*-B. Marisa Bodemer
gained 8 passes - despite only studying at GIS
for one year - and Bunluxsa Pisitpitthayaseree
(May), Patrick Van Der Poel, Polin Cercleron,
Tak Tirakayos and Piyaporn Doowa (Neha) also
scored 8 passes.
The International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) is run by
Cambridge International Examinations. It is the world's leading examination for 16-yearolds
and is similar to the GCSE tests which UK-based students sit.
In addition to the Year 11 scores, there was good news this year for younger students. For
the first time, Year 9 students also took one IGCSE, in English as a Second Language
(pictured above). The 15 students had a 100 per cent pass rate, with everyone gaining
between an A*-C. This included Shomit Ghosh, who got an A* and Shilpi Dhar, who is now
the youngest student at GIS to ever pass an IGCSE. Several students, now in Year 11,
also passed their Mathematics IGCSE a year early (pictured above right).
Many of the successful Year 11 students have now started studying for the International
Baccalaureate Diploma Programme at GIS.