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The girls of Indian descent – New Jersey-based Natasha Peri (11) and Dubai-based Priyamvada Deshmukh (12) – were named in the list of the world’s ‘brightest’ students based on the results graduate tests of 19,000 students across 84 countries, according to the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY), part of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
“Peri, a student at Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary School, has been honored for her outstanding performance on SAT, ACT or a similar assessment is taken as part of the CTY talent search,” a statement from CTY said.
Deshmukh, a student at GEMS Modern Academy, Dubai, was honored for her outstanding performance in the SCAT assessment conducted as part of the CTY Talent Search, according to a statement from the university.
She was one of nearly 19,000 students from 84 countries who joined CTY in the 2019-21 years of talent scouting. CTY uses top-level testing to identify advanced students from around the world and provide a clear picture of their true academic abilities.
Peri took the Johns Hopkins Talent Search Test in the spring of 2021 when she was in 5th grade. Her results in the verbal and quantitative sections aligned with the 90th percentile of advanced performance in 8th grade.
“It motivates me to do more,” she said, adding that scribbling and reading JRR Tolkien’s novels may have worked for her.
Deshmukh took the Johns Hopkins Talent Search Test in the spring of 2020 while still in grade 6. His results in the verbal sections correspond to the advanced performance in 10th grade. She was shortlisted for the Johns Hopkins CTY High Honors Awards.
Due to Covid19, an induced delay in global logistical support, she finally received her long-awaited “High Honors” pin this week, which she lovingly kept in front of her grandparents’ photo in tribute to her roots.
The delay in officially obtaining the certificates did not prevent her from attending the Johns Hopkins University CTY Summer Program in English Literature, where she studied the confluence of art and science in the literary writing and completed the course with an “A” grade.
She went on to achieve the highest score on the second level of the Active Talent Exam, which also qualified her for the Northwestern University Summer Program this year, where she is learning world building in this year. writing fiction.
His older brother was among the first UAE students to pass Duke University’s TIP (Talent Identification Program) when he was in grade 8.
Her parents joke that it’s nothing but a routine sibling rivalry that she wanted to achieve the same, just a year before her brother. Although she enjoys physics and computer science as subjects, unlike her older brother (who is a Chancellor’s scholarship student in astrophysics at the University of Massachusetts), Deshmukh wants to pursue humanities and science. literature when she goes to university five years later.
As part of Johns Hopkins policy, granular information is not broken down by age or race.
Likewise, it is up to the tutor to disclose the name of the prodigy. In the United States, the winners come from all 50 American states.
“We are thrilled to celebrate these students,” said Virginia Roach, CEO of CTY.
“In a anything but ordinary year, their love of learning shone, and we are delighted to help them cultivate their growth as academics and citizens in high school, college and beyond,” said added Roach.
The quantitative section of the Johns Hopkins CTY test measures the ability to see the relationships between quantities expressed in mathematical terms, the verbal section measures understanding of the meaning of words and the relationships between them.
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