Belle Phang, 18, was never content to just go through the motions as a student at Anglo-Chinese School (Independent).
Recognising the hard work of her elders to provide her family with educational opportunities and a supportive family environment, she was determined to do her best in school.
Belle, who has an older sister and younger brother, topped her school's cohort for physics, chemistry, economics and Spanish, and clinched the Ministry of Education's Engineering and Tech Programme Scholarship in 2024.
She aced the International Baccalaureate (IB) diploma exams with a perfect score of 45.
A total of 2,442 students in Singapore sat the IB diploma exams in November 2024. Their average score was 38.4, higher than the global average of 29.2.
The Switzerland-based IB organisation, which conducts the exams, said that diploma programme and career-related programme students in Singapore received their results on Dec 17. There were 21,894 candidates globally.
In 2023, Singapore students' average score was 37.8 out of 45, higher than the global average of 29.1.
Starting with the November 2024 session, the IB has brought forward the release of the exam results, which was done in January in previous years, to help students meet university application deadlines in December.
This story is from the December 19, 2024 edition of The Straits Times.
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