11:42 GMT, 17 August 2012
While most teenagers are quivering with nerves when it comes to taking their maths A Level,
Yasha Asley described it as easy peasy - and he was just seven years-old.
Now the prodigy has gained his third top-grade A level pass at the tender age of ten.
Yasha, whose teacher claims he has 'a brain like a calculator,' achieved an A* in Statistics and
now hopes to go to university.
He already has an A* in Maths and an A in Pure Maths - both of which he gained at the age of
eight.
He is the youngest person in the world to have achieved a grade A in Maths - scoring 100 per
cent and 99 per cent in two of the six papers two years ago.
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His father, Moussa Asley, a 49-year-old Iranian, who raised his son single-handedly after his
marriage broke up, said : 'It just confirmed my expectation. I felt very pleased and very proud.
Yasha, who goes to Folville Junior School in Leicester, has tutoring sessions at Leicester
University. He is now hoping to find a university that will let him enrol on a Maths course.
He started reading at a very early age and has learnt English, French, Arabic and Farsi.
The boy's headmaster, Bruce Wells, said two years ago: 'Yasha is off the scale - just so far
ahead of everyone else. His thinking skills are incredible.
'We've linked him to a professor at a local university to tutor him.
'He's not just gifted . He is way more than that. The word genius springs to mind.'
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His impressive mark came on the same day that thousands failed to make the grade.
More than a quarter of a million university applicants are stuck ‘in limbo’ after a drop in A
grades triggered an unprecedented scramble for places.
Record numbers of teenagers missed the grades they needed to secure their first-choice
degree courses, causing ‘gridlock’ in the system as universities sifted through borderline candidates.
Decades of ‘grade inflation’ ended as candidates passed 26.6 per cent of exams at grade A –
down 0.4 per cent on last year.
It marked the biggest fall in the proportion gaining As since grades were introduced in 1965 to
replace a simple pass or fail.
The number of exams awarded the elite A* – used for the first time in 2010 to counter a
relentless rise in results – also fell, from 8.2 per cent to 7.9 per cent.
While most teenagers are quivering with nerves when it comes to taking their maths A Level,
Yasha Asley described it as easy peasy - and he was just seven years-old.
Now the prodigy has gained his third top-grade A level pass at the tender age of ten.
Yasha, whose teacher claims he has 'a brain like a calculator,' achieved an A* in Statistics and
now hopes to go to university.
He already has an A* in Maths and an A in Pure Maths - both of which he gained at the age of
eight.
He is the youngest person in the world to have achieved a grade A in Maths - scoring 100 per
cent and 99 per cent in two of the six papers two years ago.
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His father, Moussa Asley, a 49-year-old Iranian, who raised his son single-handedly after his
marriage broke up, said : 'It just confirmed my expectation. I felt very pleased and very proud.
Yasha, who goes to Folville Junior School in Leicester, has tutoring sessions at Leicester
University. He is now hoping to find a university that will let him enrol on a Maths course.
He started reading at a very early age and has learnt English, French, Arabic and Farsi.
The boy's headmaster, Bruce Wells, said two years ago: 'Yasha is off the scale - just so far
ahead of everyone else. His thinking skills are incredible.
'We've linked him to a professor at a local university to tutor him.
'He's not just gifted . He is way more than that. The word genius springs to mind.'
<a href="http://s1267.photobucket.com/albums/jj559/365Wildfire/?action=view&current=erd.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/jj559/365Wildfire/erd.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
His impressive mark came on the same day that thousands failed to make the grade.
More than a quarter of a million university applicants are stuck ‘in limbo’ after a drop in A
grades triggered an unprecedented scramble for places.
Record numbers of teenagers missed the grades they needed to secure their first-choice
degree courses, causing ‘gridlock’ in the system as universities sifted through borderline candidates.
Decades of ‘grade inflation’ ended as candidates passed 26.6 per cent of exams at grade A –
down 0.4 per cent on last year.
It marked the biggest fall in the proportion gaining As since grades were introduced in 1965 to
replace a simple pass or fail.
The number of exams awarded the elite A* – used for the first time in 2010 to counter a
relentless rise in results – also fell, from 8.2 per cent to 7.9 per cent.
