Zilayefa Okoroze-Trust, a Bayelsa-born student, has achieved an incredible feat by securing 99 percent scores on the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT).

Zilayefa, a Grade 12 student of Jesuit Memorial College (JMC) Port Harcourt, Rivers State, scored 1530 out of a maximum score of 1600 at the test held on October 7, 2023.
Emerging second-best Nigerian student after David Chukwudi a student of the Nigerian Tulip International College (NTIC) 1st with a score of 1590/1600.

Before Zilayefa’s score of 1530/1600, the highest score ever recorded in previous years by any student in Nigeria was 1510/1600.
The SAT examination is a standardized test that assesses academic preparedness.

It tests applicants’ knowledge of reading, writing, mathematics and subjects that are taught every day in high school classrooms.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/12/bayelsa-teenager-sets-world-record-with-99-score-in-sat-examination/

Zilayefa, a Grade 12 student of Jesuit Memorial College (JMC) Port Harcourt, Rivers State, scored 1530 out of a maximum score of 1600 at the test held on October 7, 2023.

Emerging second-best Nigerian student after David Chukwudi a student of the Nigerian Tulip International College (NTIC) 1st with a score of 1590/1600.

Please, join me to examine this Vanguard report.

Why do they seem to be reporting about the second best as making the Guinness record instead of the first?

SharingIsLife:


Please, join me to examine this Vanguard report.

Why do they seem to be reporting about the second best as making the Guinness record instead of the first?

Even vanguard. This tribalism no go kill us oo

SharingIsLife:


Please, join me to examine this Vanguard report.

Why do they seem to be reporting about the second best as making the Guinness record instead of the first?

And, the Bayelsa boy did not score 99%. He got aprox 96%'

David Chukwudi score 99%.

Was this a deliberate tainted reportage or that they don't know simple arithmetic?

SharingIsLife:


Please, join me to examine this Vanguard report.

Why do they seem to be reporting about the second best as making the Guinness record instead of the first?

I thought I was the only one wondering about that next part of the story.