A 13-year-old Nigerian boy, Ahmed Muhammed, currently in Junior Secondary School 2 has beaten Senior Secondary School students in the Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) examination.
The JAMB examination is an O’Level examination designed for Senior Secondary School 3 (SS3) students or High School finalists to determine if they are qualified for university admission in Nigeria.
That examination usually graded over 400 is always a tough challenge for many Nigerian students. Although the pass mark is mostly set at 50% (200/400), many High School finalists in Nigeria find it hard to attain the average score.
In 2024, out of the 1,842,464 candidates who sat for the JAMB examination, 1,402,490 candidates scored below the average score of 200.
Ahmed Muhammed, a young boy from Zamfara in Nigeria in JSS2 wrote the 2024 JAMB examination for fun, and after the results were released, he beats more that 1.4 million SS3 students who took the examination.
Ahmed scored 282/400, far above the average score despite being 5 years behind the original candidates of the examination.
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Ahmed’s teacher, Mukaila AbdulRazaq who is one of his coaches at Dagama Extra Mural Classes shared his achievement on his Facebook praising the teenage boy for his excellent performance despite his academic level and his young age adding that he was just in Primary 1, five years ago.
”Meet Ahmad Muhammad (Yaro as he is popularly called), An indigene of Bukuyum Zamfara state, A student of Dagama Extra mural Classes, 13years old, In primary 1 just last 5 years, fast forward, he wrote UTME this year for fun and scored 282. Congratulations to him,” Mukaila said.
Mukaila stated that Ahmed was able to achieve the feat because he maintained his array of academic excellence from a young age and was promoted severally.
He mentioned that in 2019, Ahmed was given a double promotion to basic 3, and in 2020, the young boy also earned another double promotion in basic three moving him to basic 5 at the age of 10.
Mukaila further mentioned that Ahmed wrote the Common Entrance examination for admission into secondary school in 2021. He said the young genius started Physics class when he enrolled for his first year in secondary school (Jss1).
In 2023, Ahmed proceeded to Junior secondary school second year and was done with special science class after he left school completely for intensive classes. Starting in 2024, he joined the Joint Admission Matriculation Board examination training and sat for the exam.
Another of Ahmed’s teachers also mentioned that in the last 5 years, the young prodigy has finished the whole of further mathematics in six months, and finished mathematics textbooks in both junior and senior schools 1 to 3 in a year.
He said that Ahmed also competed in the junior Olympiad and finished second among all the participants from the 36 states in Nigeria.
Mukaila mentioned that Ahmed will be writing another Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) next year, as the 2024 one was just for fun. He also added that Ahmed will take the Standardized Test (SAT) examination in the next two years.
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