Parktown Boys celebrate their matric results
PARKTOWN – Parktown Boys' High toasts to a wonderful 2017 matric year following the results of the announcement.
Matric results hysteria gripped Parktown Boys’ High School following the release of the 2017 Gauteng Department of Education National Senior Certificate results.
Acting headmaster Kevin Stippel said on 5 January a number of the school’s matriculants attained distinctions across various subjects.
The top-performing candidate at the school, Zidaan Habib, received 10 distinctions for the year,” said Stippel.
“In general, the school did really well. Our top academics really came to the party, with a number of them receiving either eight or nine distinctions.”
Zidaan, who attained distinctions in English, Afrikaans, life orientation, maths, physical sciences, information technology, accounting, life sciences, history and AP maths, said he was overjoyed with his results. “It’s been a very long and hard year. I also want to give my best wishes and congratulations to all my friends and fellow matriculants.
“As for myself, however, I’ll be pursuing a degree in electrical engineering at a university that I’m still to decide on.”
Another top achiever at the school and one of three to achieve nine distinctions, Rushil Daya, said he plans to pursue metatronic engineering at the University of Cape Town as part of his future plans. He adding that his matric results should provide him with the impetus needed to succeed.
“I suppose these results give me the confidence that whatever I put my mind to, I can achieve. Just knowing that I’ve done what I wanted to do, will help me in the future,” he said
Matriculants Memphis Deblanco and Siyabonga Xaba added
that they were content with their performance in last year’s finals, despite not attaining any outstanding marks.
“I expected to do much better, but my parents are happy with the marks and with the pass,” said Memphis.
Siyabonga added, “I’ve been expecting this moment for a while and I’m pretty satisfied with what I have done because I had put the work in. Even though I didn’t receive any distinctions, that’s okay because I worked for the marks that I got and I’m pleased with that.”
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