Handsworth Grammar Further Mathematicians flourish at Warwick University

Places to study at the Mathematics department at Warwick University are highly prized. Not only are the requirements extremely challenging (A*AA grades required at A Level) but you must also sit an additional examination known as the STEP paper. Last year we had two Handsworth Grammar boys accepted onto the course at Warwick and this year I took some of our Further Mathematicians (Gulfraz Ahmed, Nazem Khan, Arrandeep Dhillon and Bapinder Bansal) for a STEP paper problem solving day at the prestigious Mathematics Institute. It was a wonderful day at my old university and our boys did us proud. Up against the very best Mathematicians from around the country the boys performed very well and were a credit to themselves and our school. Indeed they put the other students through their paces! We had the perfect end to the day when five prizes were drawn at random. Amazingly between the six of us we won three of the five prizes! This in itself was no mean achievement as there were over one hundred people at the event. What are the odds (that’s your homework by the way!)?

These achievements really go some way to further illustrate the vast improvement in Learning and Teaching taking place at Handsworth Grammar, particularly in Mathematics and I hope to see many more of our boys and girls studying at Warwick University in the future.

Mr Dhillow (Head of Mathematics)

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