Balochistan girl scores top grades in ‘O Levels’

Published September 16, 2013
Rafia Durrani. — Photo by Dawn
Rafia Durrani. — Photo by Dawn

QUETTA: A girl student of Balochistan got five A*s (90 per cent or more) and three As (between 80pc and 89.9pc) in this year’s O Level examinations given by the University of Cambridge, it was learnt on Sunday.

Rafia Durrani, a student of the Iqra Army Public School, Quetta, may be the region’s top-scorer for the examinations.

According to the information released by the British university, Rafia secured A*s in English language, mathematics, physics, chemistry and Urdu. She secured As in biology, Islamiyat and Pakistan studies.

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