WITH 19 marks shy of a total of 529 marks, Nicholas Mohabir has emerged as the top candidate for the Mortice Primary School at this year’s National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA).

The 11-year-old will be heading to Bishops’ High and looks forward to starting at his new school in September.

Speaking to the Guyana Chronicle, Mohabir, as an aspiring lawyer, who is fond of mathematics, said his success was due to hard work and dedication.
The top-performer, who was placed among the region’s top 10, related that he did not focus solely on academics, but also did extra-curricular activities such as visiting the rice fields with his father on a regular basis.
The young man, whose father is a rice farmer and mother, a house wife, hails from the small village of Hyde Park located on the left bank of the Mahaicony River.
With a perfect score for mathematics (136), Mohabir explained that a lot of sacrifices had to be made in preparation for the exams.
“I had to cut off television, because I used to love watching long hours of television and I love to go to sleep early, but I couldn’t do that because I had to study so much making sure that everything is on time.”

He urged other students not to be lazy. “If you want to be successful, keep on studying and always believe you can do it.”

His mother Jenifer Mohabir described her son as focused and very diligent.
She also said the school worked very well with him as well as her husband and the rest of the family members.

Mohabir’s teacher, Sir Inderjeet Persaud, said the hard work from both the teachers and the students has once again paid off.

“I am very proud, I have always been proud of my children, they go the extra mile, they would do much more than I ask them to do, so it’s not all my doing; it takes a lot from them too, because they are self-motivated and they push themselves,” he said.
Mortice Primary School was the region’s top school last year and this year it recorded an 85 per cent pass rate. Thirteen students wrote the exams, with two students awarded city schools.
The school held its graduation ceremony last Thursday.