{"id":969,"date":"2007-12-28T09:30:09","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T01:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2007\/12\/28\/7as-in-pmr-for-mahesi\/"},"modified":"2007-12-28T09:39:05","modified_gmt":"2007-12-28T01:39:05","slug":"7as-in-pmr-for-mahesi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2007\/12\/28\/7as-in-pmr-for-mahesi\/","title":{"rendered":"7As in PMR for Mahesi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><font size=\"2\">PMR results: Poverty no hurdle for top students<\/font><\/h5>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Friday\/National\/2119014\/Article\/semailpull_html\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Friday\/National\/2119014\/Article\/index_html\"> source<\/a>  <\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Friday\/National\/2119014\/insidepix1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>   (From left) S. Mahesi,  her father K. Selvarajan and mother Mahandar Kaur is all smiles after collecting her results.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p> ALOR STAR: Life has been hard for K. Selvarajan who collects scrap metal and other recycled items to earn a living. <\/p>\n<p>\n  His wife Mahandar Kaur, 39, works at a stall selling vegetables.Sometimes the family is so financially strapped  that 42-year-old Selvarajan would skip his meals.<\/p>\n<p> They toiled daily to ensure that their two children would have a good education and yesterday, their sacrifices were rewarded when their eldest daugther, S. Mahesi, scored 7As in the Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR) examination.<\/p>\n<p>  Selvarajan said he never expected his daughter to be among the straight-A scorers. <\/p>\n<p> The 15-year-old was among five students in the state who scored 7As in Bahasa Malaysia, English, Mathematics, Science, History, Geography and Living Skills.<\/p>\n<p> &quot;I dedicate my result to my parents who have worked so hard and sacrificed so much to ensure that I have the chance to attend school,&quot; Mahesi, who is also the top student in SMK Sultanah Bahiyah here, said.<\/p>\n<p>   She   attributed her success to her teachers and  friends.Mahesi said as her family could not afford to pay for tuition classes, she paid a lot of attention in class and attended extra classes conducted by her teachers on weekends. &quot;I spent seven hours daily, revising, completing exercises and doing homework. I had to do it so that I would not be left behind in class,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>   Despite the hardship she faces, Mahesi is determined to work hard to achieve her ambition of becoming a lecturer. &quot;My father and mother have sacrificed a lot and the least I can do is to study hard so that I can change my family&#39;s fortunes,&quot; she said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PMR results: Poverty no hurdle for top students source (From left) S. Mahesi, her father K. Selvarajan and mother Mahandar Kaur is all smiles after collecting her results. ALOR STAR: Life has been hard for K. Selvarajan who collects scrap metal and other recycled items to earn a living. His wife Mahandar Kaur, 39, works [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}