A Grade 12 student in Surrey has made history.
This year, he was one of more than 267,000 students to take an internationally renowned calculus exam.
He scored a perfect mark, making him the sixth student in the world ever to do so.
Surrey’s resident mathematical genius Sargun Bajaj sees calculus clearly.
Last year in Grade 11, he wrote a university level exam along with more than a quarter of a million others worldwide, and beat them all.
“My principal walked into the career center where I was sitting. She did not tell me, and she just took me and she walked me into my math class, and in front of the whole class, she told me that I got perfect score on the AP calculus exam,” says Sargun. “That was the greatest moment of my life right there.”
Sargun is the sixth student to ever achieve a perfect score on the test.
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Including class time, he studied 15 hours a week for six months before the test.
The last week, he didn’t study at all.
Sargun’s mom Ishvinder Bajaj says her son was always “good with numbers,” and got his math genius from his dad.
“From when I was 4 or 5, he used to just challenge me and give me these multiplication questions or addition/subtraction questions that I had to do in my head… so that really helped me improve my mental math,” says Sargun.
It helped him discover the secret to excelling academically.
“It is the most fun I have – studying… it is amazing. It is like entertainment while learning. It is hard to have that combination, but that is what it is.”
Sargun will write a host of other AP exams before university next year.
He’s eying applied sciences, and a career in biomedical engineering.
His perfect score is only the beginning of his ambitions.
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