UTME’s best candidate Kamsiyochukwu clears SSSCE with eight A1

By Kazeem Ugbodaga

Miss Kamsiyochukwu Nkechinyere Umeh, the best UTME candidate for 2023 has cleared her Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSSCE) with eight A1.

Kamsiyochukwu, who scored 360 marks in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in May to emerge the overall best student, only got one B2 in the nine subjects she sat for in the SSSCE organised by the West African Examination Council (WAEC).

The 16-year-old Deeper Life High School, Mowe, Ogun State girl, scored A1 in Economics, Civic Education, English Language, Further Mathematics, Mathematics, Chemistry, Computer Studies, Dyeing & Bleaching and B2 in Physics.

Kamsiyochukwu’s result

Already, for her feat in the UTME, she got several scholarships to study in different Nigerian universities.

The Anambra State Government offered Kamsiyochukwu scholarship to study any course of her choice at the Odumegwu Ojukwu University, while the Anchor University also offered her scholarship to study any course of her choice in the institution.