A nine-year-old Emirati becomes the youngest child to clear the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) exam.
IELTS is the world's leading assessment of English communicative ability required especially for higher education, immigration and employment.
Mohammed Salih Al Amri, studying if Grade five in Liwa Private School, Al Ain, scored 5.5 points, reported Al Ittihad newspaper.
Fouad Charlie Estaiban, Director of IELTS Center of the admission requirements unit at the UAE University, said: "This is an unprecedented global achievement by a child to obtain such an international certificate."
The center has encountered some difficulties in awarding the certificate to the child, because of his age. And the procedures required some amendements before Al Amri was honoured for his acheivement.
Charlie said: A score of 5.5 is incredible, as students applying for medical and engineering colleges manage to score only up to 5 points and the admission requirement to arts colleges is 4.5."
He could recite some parts of the Holy Quran when he was just two years, said the boy's father and added that he was excellent at school, too.
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