During the past academic year, performances by Suriname students in the American College Test (ACT) soared into the top 3% worldwide with Vijoya Taylor’s composite score of 31. Marciano Proeve performed commendably with 27 in the international exam.
Sixteen – year old Proeve, along with Alphamax Juniors, Vincent Hilversum and Stephan Playfair, were all short – listed for U.S. National Achievement Scholarships with their scores on P –SAT ( Pre –Scholastic Aptitude Test) examinations. Hilversum scored 207 points (top 2%), followed by Proeve with 185, and Playfair, 180. It is the first time that three Surinamese students from one school have received such commendable scores for this examination. In the 2007 examination, Taylor received the Academy’s highest score to date, 213 points (top 1%) out of a possible 240. More than 1.5 million students worldwide take these highly competitive pre – university examinations.
Finally, in 2008, Hilversum, a science junior at the Academy, broke all possible barriers on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) with his perfect score of 676 points. According to an official from the Education division at the U.S. Embassy, this is the first time a student from Suriname has delivered a perfect, 100% score, on the TOEFL test. Last year, Stephan Playfair and Marciano Proeve scored 633 and 643, respectively on the team. Playfair, a national youth athlete, attended the World Scholar’s Athletic Games at the University of Rhode Island last summer.
Friday, May 29, 2009
Our Students are on the Front Page
The handing over of cheques to defray the expenses of two Alphamax students who will be attending the Global Youth Leaders conference in Europe made front page news on De Ware Tijd today- 29 May 2009.
(Surinamese studenten in top vijf porcent internatione examens -door Filia Enser).
Vijoya Taylor and Marciano Proeve , two students doing the first year university GAC program at AlphaMax were also featured on last night's evening TV news.
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