SINGAPORE - When Caleb Lee was in Secondary 2 in 2018, he woke up one morning to jolts of pain in his thighs that were so excruciating that his mother had to take him to a polyclinic.
He was referred to KK Women s and Children s Hospital that same day, where he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, a type of cancer.
The St Hilda s Secondary School student told The Straits Times: Everything went downhill so fast and I was warded immediately. When the doctor told my mother (the diagnosis), she came out of his office crying. I thought What did I do to deserve this? . I was also crestfallen because there was not much I could do to change my condition.
SINGAPORE - Students who sat the O-level examinations from June last year while in the midst of a global pandemic saw marginal improvement from the previous year, with 85.4 per cent of the cohort attaining five or more passes.
With this, the class of 2020 secured the best showing at the national exam in at least three decades despite lockdowns and school closures.
The O-level results have been on an upward trajectory over the last few years.
In 2019, 85.2 per cent secured five or more passes, up 0.4 percentage points from the previous year.
In 2017, the figure was 83.4 per cent, and in 2016, it was 84.3 per cent.
The Straits Times
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(From left) Mr Jarett Kan and Lauren Tse from Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) on Jan 7, 2021.ST PHOTO: CHONG JUN LIANG
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