Petrina Francis, Staff Reporter

Williams

Kevin Williams, of Glenmuir High School in Clarendon, outperformed most of his peers in the 2006 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate examinations and gained top scores for all ten subjects that he sat.

"I was beyond surprise because I did not think that I would get 10 ones," he said of his reaction when he got the news of his feat.

"I was thinking that I did not pass literature," he added. An elated Kevin told The Gleaner that without his teachers at Glenmuir, he could not have done it. According to the 17-year-old, his teachers helped him to understand the various topics in each subject. "They taught me to apply the knowledge and I am grateful for that," he said.

Kevin wants to pursue a career in pharmaceuticals or medicine and, to fulfil that dream, he will be returning to Glenmuir where he will be doing chemistry, biology, physics and mathematics at the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations level.

A nerd

A firm believer that "anything that doesn't kill you makes you stronger", Kevin says his major concern with today's youth is that they do not take education seriously.

"When young men see you take education seriously, they think you are a nerd," he said.

"They prefer to be the bad man or the dapper youth which doesn't take them very far," he added.

Son of Vervan and Hixford Williams, Kevin enjoys watching television, reading and surfing the Internet. While at lower school at Glenmuir, he was involved in the debate and Spanish clubs.

Kevin got ones in biology, caribbean history, chemistry, English language, English literature, geography, information technology, mathematics, physics and Spanish.

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