By Claudine Housen, Staff Reporter 
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WESTERN BUREAU:
MICHELLE JOHNSON, an eleven-year-old student of the Black River Primary School, St. Elizabeth, is ecstatic at being one of a mere handful of students to have copped one of Jamaica's top scholarships for excellence in the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) examination.
"I feel very happy," young Johnson noted. "I am a little surprised. I know that I could have done it but I wasn't quite sure. Now, I feel confident."
The second of three children born to parents, Lindon Johnson, a scientist at Technosol Ltd., in Hodges, Black River, and Paulette Johnson, a nurse at the Black River Primary School, Michelle, who says her personal motto is 'Be Excellent and Stay True' (BEST), has always been a high achiever but still manages to maintain a hint of modesty.
"I wasn't really like anything extraordinary," she said, adding that she is reaping the rewards of, "old fashioned sitting down and studying."
"Some people say that they don't have the time to study but if you want to do well you just have to make the time and study," she said.
"I am very excited and very happy for her," said her mother, Mrs. Johnson.
"I know she was looking forward to doing her very best. She has always been an achiever and she always gives nothing lest than her best."
Still in a battle between becoming a scientist or a paediatrician, Michelle told The Gleaner that her greatest motivators were her parents and her teacher, Ms. Icylyn Malcolm.
