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Kid genius wants to study space science after KNUST
Ruth Ama Gyan-Darkwa, whose incredible academic record has wowed the nation, has opened up on her academic ambition and how she got attention to KNUST at such a tender age.
Ruth Ama Gyan-Darkwa, whose incredible academic record has wowed the nation, has opened up on her academic ambition and how she got attention to KNUST at such a tender age.
By the structure of Ghana's education, Gyan-Darkwa would have probably be in Senior High School form 1 or 2.
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“After the first degree, I’ll go outside and learn space engineering,” she told GHOne TV in an interview.
Narrating how she made it to KNUST, she noted that she started elementary school at a tender age.
According to her, due to her enviable academic record, her basic school teachers promoted her ahead of her peers.
She said she wrote the Basic Education Certificate Examination when she was in form one at Junior High School (JHS).
READ MORE: Nana Addo to give every student one chocolate daily“When I reached KG1 I went for only two terms… in class four too I spent only one term and I went to class five," she said.
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"I was then kicked to JHS1. And I tried the BECE in JHS1 and I passed and went to St. Louis."
She also revealed her ambition to become a lecturer in mathematics.
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