Dubai: A teenage football fan in Dubai has topped an international maths exam taken by students in over 125 countries.
Seventeen-year-old Indian whiz-kid Bhavesh Kakwani — who spends his free time watching and playing football — has scored highest in the 2010 Cambridge International AS Level maths test.
He received the highest possible A grade (exact number scores are not published in AS tests).
"It could be 100 per cent, they won't tell me the score. But that's fine, I'm just happy that I did well," Kakwani said. "I don't spend hours studying maths, it just comes naturally to me, I guess. My parents tell me I've always been good at it ever since I can remember."
He has long been the "go-to guy" for his younger brother and classmates facing maths problems.
Though the AS results were out last August, Kakwani only discovered in February this year that he had triumphed over everyone else when a friend spotted his pole position online.
"I was shocked, it's a great feeling," Kakwani said.
A Cambridge certificate awarded to him in March confirmed he "gained the highest marks in the world for Cambridge AS Level mathematics" last year.
Kakwani plans to study engin-eering in Canada. He is a student of GEMS Cambridge International School Dubai (not part of the UK's Cambridge International Examinations organisation).
