{"id":120413,"date":"2016-04-15T11:44:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T09:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=120413"},"modified":"2016-04-15T11:44:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T09:44:04","slug":"south-african-student-scores-highest-maths-mark-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/120413\/south-african-student-scores-highest-maths-mark-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"South African student scores highest maths mark in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South African student, Dario Trinchero (17), has been crowned the best mathematics student in the world.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leadsa.co.za\/articles\/12801\/cape-whizkid-achieves-highest-maths-marks-in-the-world-at-17\" target=\"_blank\">LeadSA,<\/a> Trinchero, who is from <span class=\"st\">Somerset College in the Western Cape, <\/span>placed first in the country for chemistry, and first in the world for mathematics in the International Cambridge AS Examinations.<\/p>\n<p>Trinchero said that his college introduced the Cambridge AS Examinations for the first time in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote two mathematics exams, and two chemistry exams, along with a practical, achieving 100% for maths &#8211; which he said he did not expect at all.<\/p>\n<p>Trinchero said that he would like to study theoretical physics, along with computer science when he completes high school.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on education in SA<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/96883\/only-four-out-of-10-sa-matrics-will-write-maths-this-year\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Only four out of 10 SA matrics will write maths this year<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/115594\/new-report-shows-real-sa-matric-pass-rate-at-60-not-70\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>New report shows real SA matric pass rate at 60%, not 70%<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/108159\/real-matric-pass-rate-in-south-africa-is-43-7\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Real matric pass rate in South Africa is 43.7%<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African student, Dario Trinchero (17), has been crowned the best mathematics student in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":120417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,11333],"class_list":["post-120413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline","tag-leadsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120437,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120413\/revisions\/120437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}