Straight As for three best friends
PETALING JAYA: “Birds of a feather flock together”.
That was what three best friends – Sophie Tay Jia Hui, K. Jaishiree and Olivia Bong Kah Wai – had to say after finding out they scored straight As for their Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM), repeating the same feat they did for their Form Three Assessment (PT3) two years ago.
They were among 33 students from SMK (P) Sri Aman to score straight As in last year’s examination.
“Some might say it’s coincidence, but I guess it’s fated. Being in an environment where everybody is so competitive, it helped that we pushed and motivated each other a lot throughout,” Sophie told theSun after the school’s results announcement yesterday.
The three, unsurprisingly, are now pursuing their Australian Matriculation Programme at Sunway College together.
Sophie said her parents were also very supportive and had never pushed her in her education, adding that they consistently reminded her that achieving straight As was not everything.
For Jaishiree, besides her friends, it was the pressure of growing up with an elder brother, who had always been a high achiever, that motivated her to push herself, and that she had not expected such results.
Olivia said she had less than five hours of sleep each day, especially in the weeks leading up to the exam.
SMK (P) Sri Aman principal Misliah Kulop, 58, when announcing the results, also revealed that two students – Aina Inarah Anwar Syahrin and Nor Ashika Nasirudeen – scored straight A+, making them the top students in the school.