![]() The course was about business communication. “In my second year, I had a GPA of 5.0 in my first semester and 4.1 in the second semester because I had a carryover in one course though I was confident that I did not fail the course. That resolve suffered a setback when failed one of her courses. Her performance encouraged her and fuelled her determination in leaving the university with a First Class. Grace revealed that she started off brightly by studying for more than five hours daily and her hard work paid off when she had a Gross Point Average (GPA) of 4.82 in her first semester and 4.6 in the second semester of her first year in school. I finished my registration and I was cleared after two months and some days,” she said. I prayed to God to surprise me I wanted Him to awaken the reading spirit in me. I was so happy at first when I got the admission but when I came to the school, I discovered that most of my classmates were younger. Aside that, I also promised myself and most of all God Almighty that I will be the best in my class,” she said.īut the admission brought more apprehension to her, “I was at home for three years doing nothing but helping my mum and going to church. “Before going to the university, my dad showed me his results and made me promise him that I will try my best and be better than him. I continued my life at home and in 2017, I wrote another UTME and I was so down but I was able to score 212,” she said, adding that the score was enough for her to secure admission to study Accounting at the Federal University Wukari, Taraba State. That could not get me admitted into the university though the cut-off mark was 180. I registered for UTME in 2016 and scored 188. “While I was in SS3, I wrote my first UTME and I scored 176. She was briefly at the Federal Government College Buni-Yadi, between 20 at the onset of the Boko Haram insurgency in the state, and then she left for Federal Government College Ganye, Adamawa State, where she graduated in 2014. She emerged among the top three students with the best results during the entrance examination into senior secondary school. She said the chat had spurred her to excellence.įrom that moment, her grades started changing until she left the school in 2011 with the first position in her class. Before then, my position was 20 something at the last school I attended,” she said while explaining the fallout of the discussion with her father.īeing the first of six children, she was determined to set a good example following the chat with her father. “I took my education seriously after that discussion that I came second in my new school, Yobe Scholars Academy Damaturu. She said her grades got worse that her dad had to wake her to reality with a threat to stop her education and return her to the village so he could focus on the education of her younger siblings. ![]() For her secondary school education, she started at Comprehensive Secondary School Kwarhi, Adamawa State, in 2008 and left in 2010. She attended three primary schools between 19. Her grades were so poor that she had to change schools several times. Though the carryover was the latest hurdle she surmounted before graduating in flying colours, she was on the verge of being withdrawn from school while in junior secondary school by her parents due to poor grades. I almost lost the dream of a First Class or a good grade but I always rebuked that spirit and focused on being positive.” I was so confident that I was a first-class student when I started as an undergraduate but the carryover almost pushed me off. There is God and it is God that has done it for me. Many people may not believe in prayers but I do. ![]() The incident almost crashed her dream of earning the highest grade but her faith in God and belief in prayers salvaged her dream. Even when she thought her First Class was sealed due to her exceptional academic performance during her first year at the Federal University Wukari, Taraba State, she failed one of her courses. ![]()
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