– The youngest student to sit NGSA this year
The acquisition of success is dependent on a number of factors, or so the Guyana Chronicle learnt during an interview with the Dev family, whose youngest member, Abhimanyu Dev, secured fourth position among the top performers at the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) Examinations. There must be a balance in everything that you do; and only so will two different things, work and play, be able to complement each other to maintain stability and ensure success.

9-year-old Abhimanyu Dev

This was according to a well spoken 9-year-old Abhimanyu Dev; the youngest child in this year’s sitting of the NGSA tests.

“Every one must study hard; but must work and relax too, without overworking,” the boy said.

Born on February 13, 2000, this millennium baby was different and it showed from a tender age.

According to his father Mr. Ravi Dev, his son showed how different he was long before he could walk.

“Before he crept he walked, and this was just the one of many surprising firsts,” the elder Dev said.

He explained that Abhimanyu not only walked early, but spoke early, read early, and even expressed an interest in education higher than his level early.

“When he entered Primary School at five, he was far above the level of the children in Grade One so they moved him over to Grade Three, ” Dev said proudly.

Laughingly, he recalled that in Grade One Abhimanyu complained that the class was full of “cry-a-babies.”

On a more serious note, Dev stated that in addition to balancing work and play, the boy recognises the importance of intellect, discipline and healthy competition.

“He has an outstanding ability,” Dev posited.

However, even with this outstanding ability, Abhimanyu is unyielding in his determined stand to be a cricketer with the West Indies cricket team.

His mother, Mrs. Padmini Dev, stated that her son’s love for cricket does not take away from his love for reading.

“Ours is an environment that allows him to excel; but the creation of that environment was not deliberate is it based on preferences the family has,” she said.