Twins are Champion at Sunway A-Level Maths & Logic Challenge

Champions, How Si Yu and How Si Wei receiving the mock cheque from Professor David Ngo (left), the Deputy Vice Chancellor of Sunway University.

410 participating students embraced themselves for the sixth Sunway A-Level Math and Logic Challenge. However, twins How Si Yu and How Si Wei from SMK USJ 12, Subang Jaya took the champions trophy home for the Math and Logic Competition held at Sunway University recently.

Professor David Ngo presenting the mock cheque to Liew ZiQing and Lee Gin Hoong from Chong Hwa Independent High School, Kuala Lumpur after they emerged 1st runners-up during the challenge.

The duo beat 104 other participating schools from all over Malaysia including Alor Setar, Penang, Johor, Kuantan as well as Ipoh, Seremban, Melaka and the Klang Valley. Liew ZiQing and Lee Gin Hoong from Chong Hwa Independent High School, Kuala Lumpur emerged 1st runners-up whereas Lim Chin Guan and Tee Xun Chu of Hin Hua High School, Klang emerged as 2nd runners-up. Two students represented one team, making the number of participation the largest in the past six years with a total of 410 students.

Professor Ngo handing the mock cheque to Lim Chin Guan and Tee Xun Chu of Hin Hua High School, Klang after they emerged as 2nd runners-up during the Math and Logic Competition.

205 teams of Form 3 to Form 5 students cracked the 25 multiple choice questions they were presented with in Round 1 followed by a challenging group quiz in Round 2, both while fighting for time. The competition questions were developed by the Sunway A-Level math teachers headed by Dr Wong Yoke Chen, Director of the A-Level programme at Sunway, who is very passionate about Mathematics. The challenge was in line with the government’s call to improve the standard and quality of Mathematics in schools. Sunway aspires to increase the level of math aptitude among students in the Malaysian secondary schools by incorporating a creative and versatile medium of learning that also encompasses a fun element.

Ms Cheng Mien Wee, the Pre-U Studies Director, handing the trophy to one of the top 21 individual winners.

The attractive prizes offered include Sunway A-Level bursaries – full tuition fee waiver (worth RM18,000) for each team member of the champion group; RM16,000 and RM 12,000, respectively, for each team member who emerged 1st runners-up and 2nd runners-up. The champion school also received a Challenge Trophy and RM 500 in cash for their victory. The schools of 1st and 2nd runners-up received cash worth RM300 and RM200. 21 highest individual scorers for the first round received a tuition fee waiver worth RM 8,000 each. All group and individual winners also received a trophy each.

Dr Wong Yoke Chen (5th from left), Professor David Ngo (6th from left) and Ms Cheng Mien Wee (7th from left) with the Challenge Committee members and group winners.