Uganda, March 18 -- A 17-year-old Param Desai has emerged among the top performers in Cambridge IGCSE examinations and received a Top in World Award in Mathematics.

As the only child of Mr Shashang Bharatkumar Desai and Ms Mansi Shashang Desai, Param Shashan, who was born in India, has lived in Uganda for all his school life. He started school at Aga Khan School in Kampala.

"In Primary, I did not do Uganda National Examinations Board (Uneb) but I did international grade. Out of 18 subjects, I got aggregate 18 and in year 11, which is S4, I did 10 subjects and got A-Stars (above 90) and in Mathematics I scored 100 percent," he told this newspaper on Saturday.

Currently sitting for his S.5 and S.6 under the International Baccalaureate pr...