St Augustine's pupils score top marks

An Ealing student has qualified for a top maths competition after beating stiff opposition.

Mayuko Yoshie, a Year 10 student at St Augustine's Priory, came top in the school in this year’s UK Maths Trust’s Intermediate Maths Challenge with a score of 113, far exceeding the Olympiad threshold (one of the follow-on competitions) and puts Mayuko, according to the UKMT, in the top 0.1% of entrants this year.

In this annual event aimed at pupils in Years 9, 10 and 11, organised by the UK Mathematics Trust (UKMT), other pupils also achieved excellent results

Sixty-five students from the three year groups joined approximately 200,000 pupils from 4,000 other schools and colleges across Britain to answer 25 multiple choice questions in one hour, taken in school under normal exam conditions on 5th February.

The scoring process means that pupils are penalized for incorrect answers. Harder questions are worth more marks, but therefore lose even more marks if incorrectly answered.

The top 5,500 pupils across the three year groups qualify for the follow-on European rounds, called the Grey and Pink Kangaroos. The top 500 pupils in each year group are invited to take part in the Intermediate Olympiad on 19th March.

In addition to Mayuko Yoshie qualifying for the Olympiad there were three qualifiers for the European Kangaroos. Anna Szyszko (Year 11) and Kaho Oishi (Year 10) both qualify for the Pink Kangaroo (Years 10/11), and Francesca Tyrer (Year 9) qualifies for the Grey Kangaroo (Year 9).
In total St Augustine's pupils achieved three Gold, six Silver and fourteen Bronze certificates.

The UKMT acknowledged that this year’s competition was “a particularly challenging paper”.

24th Feb 2015