Aim High with A-Level at Sunway College

“My time in the A-level has provided me the opportunity to become a more matured person in the sense that I am able to comprehend complex problems through a systematic thought process which was inculcated into the programme. The friends and teachers I met during my A-levels will always be an important part of my life, even though we have taken on different paths in life” said Janesh Nathan, who completed his A-Level at Sunway College.

A recipient of the Gamuda Scholarship Award 2015, Janesh is currently in his first year at Monash University Malaysia pursuing his 3-year Bachelors of Commerce (Accounting).

Sunway College’s largest A-level Tea Party

Sunway College’s A-level Tea Party has become a biannual event as its students have been constantly achieving straight As in almost every Cambridge A-level examinations in recent years. In the November 2014 Cambridge A-level examinations, students achieved a 100 percent pass rate with 64 percent obtaining straight As, making the recently held tea party substantially the largest celebration so far with 200 straight As high achievers.

Among those present were the 35 Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) Outstanding Cambridge Learner Awards (OCLA) winners for their excellent performance in the June 2014 Cambridge examination series. 30 of them received Top in the World, 4 Top in Malaysia and 1 Best across Three Cambridge International A-levels Awards.

The audience was treated to performance by A-level students and lecturers singing and dancing to a newly composed song on Sunway College’s A-level

Sunway College A-level Student Never Gives Up

Applying for a scholarship is not a stroll in a park. Tommy Hoo Yi Vae, Sunway College’s A-level alumnus has much to tell of continuing his studies at University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He has been offered a place in a 4-year bachelor and master degree in Economics and Statistics with a full scholarship covering his tuition fee, living expenses and a round-trip airfare.

Tommy, who scored 3As in Economics, Mathematics, Physics and 1B in Further Mathematics in the November 2013 Cambridge A-level Examinations, is a fighter against all odds. He applied for more than 10 scholarships, attended over 20 interviews and group assessments, and received plenty of rejections from his various scholarship applications. “One should never give up. I believe all those rejections helped prepare me for this scholarship,” said Tommy.

Sunway College’s A-level Alumnus - Tommy Hoo Yi Vae at University of Edinbrugh