KAY-MARIE FLETCH­ER

Se­nior Re­porter

kay-marie.fletch­er@guardian.co.tt

While the re­sults of the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am­i­na­tions have been out for well over a week now, the ex­cite­ment is still very much in the air for thou­sands of stu­dents, es­pe­cial­ly those still beam­ing with ex­cite­ment from their ex­cel­lent re­sults.

Such is the case for over 100 stu­dents at­tached to the 43 pri­ma­ry schools man­aged by the Sanatan Dhar­ma Ma­ha Sab­ha of Trinidad and To­ba­go In­cor­po­rat­ed.

In a spe­cial SEA awards func­tion host­ed by the SDMS held at the Lak­sh­mi Girls’ Hin­du Col­lege yes­ter­day, 129 stu­dents who topped their pri­ma­ry schools in the SEA ex­am­i­na­tion were ho­n­oured for their achieve­ments.

Out­shin­ing every­one was 11-year-old Navya Seenath who at­tend­ed the San­gre Grande Hin­du Pri­ma­ry School.

With an al­most per­fect score, Seenath achieved 100 per cent in Cre­ative Writ­ing, 98.67 in Math­e­mat­ics and 92.19 in ELA earn­ing her first-choice at the Lak­sh­mi Girls’ Hin­du Col­lege.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia af­ter the awards func­tion, a very shy Seenath said was ex­cit­ed about her re­sults.

She said her favourite sub­ject is Math­e­mat­ics and she hopes to be­come a pae­di­a­tri­cian one day.

Seenath said, “I feel very hap­py and ex­cit­ed that I earned all of this … It was most­ly school­work and prayer.”

Asked what ad­vice she has for stu­dents who will be sit­ting the SEA ex­am­i­na­tion next year, she said, “They should fol­low their goals and dreams.”

Her very proud par­ents Navin and Priya Bis­s­ram-Seenath said their daugh­ter put in many hours of hard work to achieve her suc­cess.

Priya said, “It was a lot of work, a lot of prayers, but she re­al­ly per­se­vered. It took a lot, but I am so elat­ed that she has ac­com­plished this and I am so proud of her.”

Navin said, “She’s a very lov­ing child, car­ing. She loves play­ing video games, trav­el­ling, and oth­er ex­tracur­ric­u­lar ac­tiv­i­ties. She made us proud. We didn’t ex­pect this. She did many, many hours of stud­ies, ex­tra stud­ies apart from school. We’d like to thank the teach­ers, the les­son teach­ers, her grand­par­ents, her prin­ci­pal and her class teacher.”