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11-year-old passes CAPE subjects
« on: March 27, 2012, 04:14:56 PM »
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/featured-news/11-year-old_passes_CAPE_subjects-144314385.html

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Somma Chevalier brought her parents great joy after she wrote the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) at the tender age of 11.

Her mother, Marsha Badri-Chevalier, praised her daughter's efforts after she received four 3s, one 2 and one 4 in the following subjects: Mathematics 3, English Language 3, Principles of Accounts 2, Principles of Business 3, Social Studies 3 and Human and Social Biology 4.

Described by her mother as an intelligent child and someone who grasped things very quickly, this remarkable youngster after completing her Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) Examination last year passed for a secondary school in Trincity. She then signed up for CAPE in January privately and wrote the exam alongside students who were at least four years older than her.

Now 12 years old, the soft-spoken but confident Somma elected not to go to the school for which she passed but instead enrolled as a form one student at Chevalier and Associates Limited, a private institution in Arima run by her father which she attends with her two older siblings.

The school population is approximately 100 and each class has 30 students. Her brother, Mlinzi 13 and sister Siande, 15 also wrote the CAPE examinations and secured 2s and 3s in the same subject areas. According to Chevalier a regular school day for her children starts at 8 a.m. and ends at 6.30 p.m. Apart from doing their regular subjects, Somma, Mlinzi and Siande also do lessons. Learning Mathematics, Add Maths, Chemistry, Physics, Economics, Biology, French and Spanish to name a few, Chevalier says the goal is to have all of her children do their A levels in the next two years.

Some people might say that you are pushing your children too fast or too hard, how would you respond to this? the Express asked.

"That's why I don't allow them to do too much school work on the weekends. It is their time to have fun and watch TV or play games," she said.

Chevalier said, "While I am proud of all my children, unlike my two older children who were exposed to the CXC curriculum already, my youngest, Somma was coming straight out of primary school and for her first time I think she did extremely well."

While some people would have misgivings allowing an 11-year-old to write the CAPE examination, Somma said she felt confident in her abilities and felt she was ready to write the exam alongside her older siblings. Determined, clever and obstinate at times, Chevalier says her daughter is like any regular child her age.
So how does one prepare to write SEA and then CAPE shortly after?
According to Somma there is no secret formula. It takes hard work and lots of revision in all the subject areas. The most important thing you can do for yourself is to go into the exam with a mindset that no matter what I'm going to do my best, she said.

So what is the secret to success?

According to Chevalier's brother Mlinzi—motivation
He said, "It is important to be motivated. My dad really motivates us in all the subject areas to do our best.
"Honestly if it were left up to me, I would play whole day. I am glad that my dad is there to get me to buckle down and hit the books. He says that I have a high retention level, the highest he has ever seen. If I was in the public school system I might not have been this lucky and probably just let my talent go to waste," he said.

What is it like having your father as a parent and a teacher?

"There are definitely advantages and disadvantages," Somma chuckled and said.

"For one, no one picks on you at school because your dad is the teacher. And two if I want a snack and don't have much money, I could go to him and ask. The disadvantages are if someone else does something wrong in class they would get a lecture. If we did something wrong, he would talk to us very sternly and we know not to do it again or else we would have to face the consequences. My dad firmly believes in the phrase, spare the rod and spoil the child," she added.

When Somma is not at school she enjoys reading, swimming, football and watching television. She loves watching Judge Judy and says she wants to be a magistrate when she grows up.
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11-year-old passes CAPE subjects
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Re: 11-year-old passes CAPE subjects
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2012, 05:02:34 PM »
Not to be a tool, but twos, threes, and fours is 'success'?

It would have been remarkable if it was all ones.

Give me a ress eh...  :laughing7:



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Re: 11-year-old passes CAPE subjects
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2012, 05:40:03 PM »
Not to be a tool, but twos, threes, and fours is 'success'?

It would have been remarkable if it was all ones.

Give me a ress eh...  :laughing7:



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Acutally ur right. She cud get into uwi with dem passes. The only ting that would keep her back is her age :D

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Re: 11-year-old passes CAPE subjects
« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2012, 05:41:34 PM »
Im happy for you you're real smart and all and imma let u finish but Old Spice has one of the best marketing campaigns of all time... all time...........

Which is what this smacks of in my head...a very clever marketing campaign. How much does this girl's parents stand to make from people lining up to 'get the chile inside da school'?

And didnt even have to pay a dime in advert fees. Smart eh?

Very good little girl, congrats on your success. Now your parents are using you to get rich/richer.

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Re: 11-year-old passes CAPE subjects
« Reply #4 on: March 27, 2012, 06:11:01 PM »
Not to be a tool, but twos, threes, and fours is 'success'?

It would have been remarkable if it was all ones.

Give me a ress eh...  :laughing7:


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Off the bat, she didn't do CAPE, she did CXC i.e. O levels. This article was poorly done >_> (trinidad media strikes again at misinforming the public!)

There are a few things you have to take into consideration senor le Arcmanov.

1) There are hundreds of 'educated' form 4 and 5 students who prepare for those exams for 4 to 5 years, she achieved what many people don't in 5 years, in the time space of 1.

2) She had to write an extra paper for each subject because she would not have done SBA's, with the exception of Math and English of course.

3) The passing grade for a CXC Subject is a 3. So she failed 1, i know people who have no CXC subjects. At least she can work now  :awesome:

Suzieboy is right to a point, she can get into uwi pre undergrad programs.

@Awesome... what??
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Re: 11-year-old passes CAPE subjects
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Re: 11-year-old passes CAPE subjects
« Reply #5 on: March 27, 2012, 06:34:29 PM »
Duly noted Virtue... in fact I know of one chap from my year who got zero passes.  Real 'girls-man' and 'star athlete'.
The joke is...all the girls who he was running down got all ones.  We get good kicks on that yes.


I understand exactly what Awesome is getting at.  You can't pay for THAT kind of publicity.  Real clever.

...but again, if she got all ones then that would be truly remarkable.  Don't you think the top 100 SEA students could
be pushed to do this as well, and probably with better results?

Come now Virtue...read between the lines here.
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Re: 11-year-old passes CAPE subjects
« Reply #6 on: March 27, 2012, 06:48:11 PM »
I hope this motivates her to do even better as she progresses through secondary school. Some may say pushing your kids too hard with book could lead them to burn out though. It is still an achievement though, what is the drop out rate for our schools again? She already ahead of quite a few in the student population.

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Re: 11-year-old passes CAPE subjects
« Reply #7 on: March 27, 2012, 07:08:07 PM »
I think y'all are down playing the girls success and it strikes me as typical Trini mentality, hadda put each other down than raise each other up, honestly wtf ppl

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Re: 11-year-old passes CAPE subjects
« Reply #8 on: March 27, 2012, 07:36:59 PM »
Well blame me, then.  I am playing it down because too often we 'Trinis' like to accept mediocrity and pass it off as 'success'.

I reinforce the assertion that this was probably a carefully managed publicity stunt to put the private school in a 'positive' light.


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Re: 11-year-old passes CAPE subjects
« Reply #9 on: March 27, 2012, 07:45:53 PM »
Nah man it shows motivation, there are students in secondary school that can't even read and write :s

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Re: 11-year-old passes CAPE subjects
« Reply #10 on: March 27, 2012, 07:54:12 PM »
There are adults that can't read and write the world over! You want to talk about celebrating mediocrity, see west indies cricket team draw.

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Re: 11-year-old passes CAPE subjects
« Reply #11 on: March 27, 2012, 08:13:49 PM »
Cant blame Arc for his outlook on this. Trinis have done very little thats impressive, maybe the shock of this success is too great eh Arc? lol.

Well, if you had asked me to take a cxc exam three or four months after common entrance, the aim, realistically, would be to see if I can achieve a whole number percentage score, (aka more than .99%) lol. The idea that this was done makes me want to ask to see the proof, but not hate on the girl. Epic achievement (if true)

BUT.....you will be VERYYY naive if you do not read between the lines here. These are the points that I glean automatically from reading this

1) Article mentions that the father owns and operates the private school that led to this success. Said school was NAMED for all to see.

2) Careful giudance of children's answers to questions with the implication that the public education system is a waste of time (this is true!!) and that their success is due to this school. (Also true, but this is clearly a marketing effort!! If your school is THAT good, why you cant let your popularity and prestige build by word of mouth/paid advertising like any other prestige organisation??

3) I dont know much about the ad business, but I can spot one when I see it.

A: There's a product.
B: Its virtues are highlighted
C: Takes a jab at the competition (pub schools)
D: Testimonials

4) Based on point 2 and 3, I wonder if I can build the most awesomeest rig in all the land, get someone to write an article on my awesome build and go on to say the name of my business, why what ive done is better than everyone else's, dis Arcman's builds and get Notnice to say how awesome the PC is.

Now I know the formula to get free advertising, let me get started!
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Re: 11-year-old passes CAPE subjects
« Reply #12 on: March 27, 2012, 08:44:44 PM »
There are adults that can't read and write the world over! You want to talk about celebrating mediocrity, see west indies cricket team draw.

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aye aye it take we 17 years to get that draw eh... I toast to that

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Re: Re: 11-year-old passes CAPE subjects
« Reply #13 on: March 27, 2012, 09:01:32 PM »
There are adults that can't read and write the world over! You want to talk about celebrating mediocrity, see west indies cricket team draw.

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aye aye it take we 17 years to get that draw eh... I toast to that
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Re: 11-year-old passes CAPE subjects
« Reply #14 on: March 27, 2012, 09:07:05 PM »
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...dis Arcman's builds
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That made me laugh.

...but some Trinis feel dey is de brightest bulb on de shelf nah.

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« Reply #15 on: March 27, 2012, 10:10:59 PM »
Could be d next PM in time to come .

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Re: 11-year-old passes CAPE subjects
« Reply #16 on: March 27, 2012, 10:13:35 PM »
I think I know this girl's father!!

Edit: I do

McQueen Chevalier is the father.

He been running lessons classes since I was in Form 6! Nice to see he has made his business grow over the years.
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Re: 11-year-old passes CAPE subjects
« Reply #17 on: March 28, 2012, 12:29:51 AM »
See?  Look how Sax geh rope een.

Ah sure yuh thinking of sending yuh outside child there now ent?  (troll)
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Re: 11-year-old passes CAPE subjects
« Reply #18 on: March 28, 2012, 12:44:37 AM »
Instigating MF'er lol.
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Re: 11-year-old passes CAPE subjects
« Reply #19 on: March 28, 2012, 08:32:42 AM »
I love how Arc included troll face.

True troll doh lie, lol.


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