GALLERY: Sahil bags eight A’s at Westville Boys’ High School
WBHS's Class of 2015 achieved 520 subject distinctions and a 92 per cent Bachelor pass rate.
WESTVILLE Boys’ High School’s 2015 NSC results reaffirm the school’s position as one of the top academic institutions in the country.
The school headmaster, Trevor Hall said the Class of 2015 did extremely well to achieve 520 subject distinctions and a 92 per cent Bachelor pass rate.
“Given their considerable number of 252 pupils, it is to their credit that they were able to produce results of this order. It should also be noted that this was done in the context of a general national decline in marks and pass rates in most of the major subjects,” said Hall.
He added that two of their boys’ results were incomplete due to injury or illness.
Some notable statistics for the group of 251 boys were: 251 passed out of 252 (2014: 99%), 229 boys achieved Bachelor passes i.e. 92% of the group (2014: 86%), 16 boys achieved seven or more distinctions compared (2014: 19) and 24 boys achieved six distinctions or more (2014: 31).
Sahil Maharaj achieved seven distinctions, and was placed in the top five of the district. The other boys who each achieved seven distinctions were: Kamir Arjun, Dylan Arumoogum, Dhiraj Bhana, Dane Bottomley, Samuel de Beer, Matthew Copley, Johan du Toit, Luc Garrioch, Joshua Gonggryp, Taveer Hargovan, Luke Lapin, Devashen Mudaliar, Jack Reinbach, Muhammad Suleman and Taahir Suleman.
“I thank all our teachers across all grades for their persistence in motivating the boys in their classes. I also appreciate the positive pressure that most parents apply at home in supporting our initiatives – this is extremely vital.
“The success we achieved last year in academics, sport and the arts reinforces our commitment to the holistic approach and our mission of nurturing all-round excellence. It is true that the more a boy puts into his school, the more he gets out of it. The boys mentioned above were certainly not one-dimensional academics, and they added value to the school over a number of different areas: in sport, performing arts and service,” added Hall.
